One thing is obvious from today, the SSCI want Jay Clayton confirmed as DNI.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a quick, one-round, nomination hearing for Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. The entire event lasted just under two hours with little room for controversy. It should be smooth sailing from here.
Other than a little faux resistance from SSCI Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, the nomination hearing was otherwise unremarkable. You can always tell the position of the Intelligence Community by the positioning of their enabling structure within the SSCI. No worries ahead for Clayton.
The committee may organize a party line vote so that Democrats can maintain their resistance Bonafide’s, but in a general sense it’s all optics during the downhill glide to the nomination. That said, what this means in the larger picture of the USIC system during the Trump administration is yet to be determined.
Obviously FISA (702) reauthorization will likely be attached by Senate Majority Leader John Thune into a legislative package for a companion vote. The SSCI and larger Senate chamber all support Clayton and FISA (702), though there may be some optics of resistance from positional republicans.
It seems pretty clear that Acting DNI Bill Pulte was put in place by the White House to stay on through the release of election-related material planned for Thursday night. This move keeps DNI Clayton away from any fallout tied to the 2020 election investigation, and if the White House can pull off a presidential presentation that grabs public attention, Clayton could step into the role later with a mandate to dig into the details of the release without being directly linked to it.
The second aspect is yet another motive for fast DNI confirmation by an SSCI apparatus that really doesn’t want to go down the rabbit hole of foreign activity in the 2020 election.
ADNI Bill Pulte and SGE John Solomon are now positioned to have one shot at grabbing political attention framed around the fraudulent 2020 election outcome on Thursday night. Soon thereafter, Clayton will take the reins at DNI and continue the goal of removing politics from the activity of the larger Intelligence Community.
Not sure they’re so much crazy about Clayton as they are desperate to get rid of Bill Pulte.
You are probably onto something there. “They” might view him as “the lesser of two evils”.
Why….WHY….would Trump nominate someone to this critical position that the corrupt IC likes????
I don’t get it. I just don’t.
You are not alone in your thoughts on this.
When I read the hearing went smoothly, I said uh oh. That’s not good for our side.
Susie Wiles, his Chief of Staff from Pfizer.
My thought exactly. Isn’t there someone in PDJT’s orbit who can get the message to him that he is losing support from those in his MAGA voter base who are paying close attention to who his appointees are, and to what those appointees are likely to do once they assume control?
And who was it in the White House who gave Trump arch-enemy David Rhodes of MS-NOW a briefing on what PDJT’s upcoming Thursday speech was going to contain?
Hope left the building with Tulsi.
“When will you let go of human intellect and understanding, and Look to Me alone?”
I thought Trump withdrew Clayton.
Think it was just paused.
One of Christopher Walken’s most memorable performances. (And he has had a great many . . .) Brilliant screenwriting, too. All the camera has to do is to sit there and film him . . . and, in the next cut, the other actor just has to “react.” (Which he does.)
We sure did elect a Lion. Time to tear the Sh*t out of the Democrat/Communists and Iran.
The whole of government pounced illegally on our Lion. They shot him in the ear. They tortured his family.
I would sign on for the removal of all of them to a nice part of an island in the Caribbean…..called Gitmo.
I surely hope this doesn’t turn into a nothing burger.
For the benefit of Mr. Trump
There will be a show tomorrow night on MSM
The IC’s will all be there
Late of Solomon’s care, what a scene
Over men and horses, hoops and garters
Lastly through a hogshead of real fire
In this way, Mr. T. will challenge the world
The celebrated Mr. T
Performs his feat on Thursday at DC’s gate
John Solomon will dance and sing
As Mr. Trump flies through the ring, don’t be late
Messrs. T. and S. assure the public
Their production will be second to none
And of course Pulte the Acting DNI dances the waltz
The band begins at ten to six
When Mr. T. performs his tricks without a sound
And Mr. S. will demonstrate
Ten revelations he’ll undertake on solid ground
Having been some days in preparation
A splendid time is guaranteed for all
And tomorrow night, Mr. T is topping the bill
And you’re saying what exactly?
Like it or not it’s ALL out of our hands! It’s ALL in God’s hands.
We would do well to listen to Saint Padre Pio: “Pray, hope, and don’t worry.”
Just amusing us with an old Beatles song
N/M
I don’t suppose Clayton will pursue election integrity or the 2020 election results. He will see nothing, say nothing like Bagpipes Barr if Warner likes him.
But at least the case of the Grand Conspiracy is proceeding in Florida, so far. I think Brennan is stii trying to get it squelched but the evidence is out and cannot be hidden again.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/john-brennan-letter-judge-shopping-cannon
And I think it’s interesting that Sundance choose that clip, with Christopher Walken, to highlight.
Well, I hope this confirmation moves the Save Act or the million things I don’t even know about on the President’s plate.
It’s a big square dance of compromise on Trump’s part.
But in the end.
The Lion eats them all alive.
He’s one of them. Did Susie Wiles recommend him?
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https://theamericanreport.org/2021/04/26/absolute-interference-cybersecurity-experts-chinese-cyberwarfare-attacks-flipped-u-s-election-from-trump-to-biden-chinese-made-tcl-alcatel-phones-distributed-to-georgia-poll-managers-secretly-conn/
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https://theamericanreport.org/2022/11/05/konnechs-confidential-and-proprietary-proposal-reveals-100-cloud-based-pollchief-system-connects-to-internet-android-iphone-tracks-voting-machines-scanners-tabulators/
Glad someone is positive about Jay Clayton.
Just color me suspicious when Congress finds a nominee acceptable.
Send Pulte to replace feeble Mark Wayne Mullin at DHS. He won’t back down from criticism.
Mullin. How do you spell p*ssy with an ‘M’?