{"id":75073,"date":"2026-06-19T08:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/timeline-of-bill-pultes-appointment-as-acting-director-of-national-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:59:14","slug":"timeline-of-bill-pultes-appointment-as-acting-director-of-national-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/timeline-of-bill-pultes-appointment-as-acting-director-of-national-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of Bill Pulte\u2019s appointment as acting director of national intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump loyalist\u2019s rise to lead US spy agencies sparked firestorm over his lack of experience and partisanship<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/19\/bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence\">Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bill Pulte took the reins on Friday as the acting director of national intelligence, placing the staunch Trump loyalist in charge of America\u2019s intelligence apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>Pulte\u2019s path to the job began with the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard last month, and Trump\u2019s selection of Pulte for the interim job set off a firestorm in Washington as senators from both parties criticized Pulte\u2019s almost total lack of experience for the job, as well as his practiced dedication to retaliating against Trump\u2019s political rivals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/19\/bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence-timeline\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump loyalist\u2019s rise to lead US spy agencies sparked firestorm over his lack of experience and partisanship Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence Bill Pulte took the reins on Friday as the acting director of national intelligence, placing the staunch Trump loyalist in charge of America\u2019s intelligence apparatus. Pulte\u2019s path &#8230; <a title=\"Timeline of Bill Pulte\u2019s appointment as acting director of national intelligence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/timeline-of-bill-pultes-appointment-as-acting-director-of-national-intelligence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Timeline of Bill Pulte\u2019s appointment as acting director of national intelligence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}