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National Intelligence acting director Bill Pulte has installed as his chief of staff a woman who worked on election-related schemes for the Republican National Committee, according to former U.S. officials.<\/p>\n

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\u201cChristina Norton, the former R.N.C. official, has also served as Bill Pulte\u2019s chief of staff at the federal housing agency he leads. But much of her recent work for the G.O.P. has centered on election issues, including efforts to monitor voting sites during the 2024 presidential election,\u201d reports the New York Times.<\/p>\n

While at the R.N.C., the Times reports Norton oversaw a poll watcher program that included conservative conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, who helped spread the \u201cPizzagate\u201d stories about child abuse at a restaurant in Washington.<\/p>\n

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA.), the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said the mission of Pulte\u2019s office was supposed to be countering foreign threats, not importing \u201celection denialism into the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf reports are true that Bill Pulte, whose installation as acting D.N.I. already raises serious legal questions, is bringing a former senior R.N.C. official who cavorted with election deniers and conspiracy theories into O.D.N.I. as his chief of staff, Americans have every reason to fear that this administration is once again eroding the wall between our intelligence agencies and domestic elections,\u201d The Times reports Warner saying in a statement.<\/p>\n

Rep Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee had his own issues with the appointment, saying Pulte\u2019s office is supposed to ensure \u201cthey report on legitimate foreign threats to elections, not [President]Donald Trump\u2019s imaginary ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump was explicit when he appointed Bill Pulte to a job he had no qualifications for that he had elections in mind,\u201d Himes said in a statement.<\/p>\n

CNN reported Pulte came into his appointed post ready to fire people, and began “asking for a list of every employee in the office so he could assess whether to fire them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Juliette Kayyem, CNN’s senior national security analyst and ex-assistant secretary of Homeland Security said Pulte was \u201cthere for one reason, and that is to satisfy the president’s agenda of politicizing the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not [just] a personal opinion,\u201d Kayyem added. \u201cBy statute, Bill Pulte is not qualified for this position. The Director of National Intelligence is supposed to come from the intelligence community. Bill Pulte is a businessman with strong ties to MAGA and to Trump.”<\/p>\n

Read more Ex-MAGA darling accuses Trump of \u2018manipulating stock market for insider trading\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Intelligence acting director Bill Pulte has installed as his chief of staff a woman who worked on election-related schemes for the Republican National Committee, according to former U.S. officials.\u201cChristina Norton, the former R.N.C. official, has also served as Bill Pulte\u2019s chief of staff …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nGOP operative with ties to election conspiracy theorists installed at Trump spy agency - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GOP operative with ties to election conspiracy theorists installed at Trump spy agency - 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