{"id":90087,"date":"2026-07-22T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-committee-advances-jay-claytons-nomination-for-intelligence-chief-over-democrats-opposition\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:11:12","slug":"senate-committee-advances-jay-claytons-nomination-for-intelligence-chief-over-democrats-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-committee-advances-jay-claytons-nomination-for-intelligence-chief-over-democrats-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee advances Jay Clayton&#8217;s nomination for intelligence chief over Democrats&#8217; opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>The Senate Intelligence Committee advanced Jay Clayton&#8217;s nomination for director of national intelligence on Tuesday, despite opposition from Democrats following his confirmation hearing earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In a 9 to 8 vote, the committee voted along party lines to advance Clayton&#8217;s nomination to the floor, GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the committee chairman, announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jay Clayton is a highly qualified nominee with a deep experience combatting a wide range of national security threats,&#8221; Cotton said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;m pleased that the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to advance his nomination to be Director of National Intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Trump nominated Clayton, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, last month. And although some Democrats had initially praised the nomination, which came as a more controversial pick was set to take over the agency as acting director of national intelligence, their support appeared to wane following <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jay-clayton-trumps-dni-nominee-senate-confirmation-hearing\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Clayton&#8217;s confirmation hearing<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>At the hearing, Democrats repeatedly asked Clayton about the results of the 2020 election. And although he acknowledged that former President Joe Biden was certified as president and said he is &#8220;not an election denier,&#8221; Clayton evaded questions about who won the 2020 contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee&#8217;s vice chairman who had initially said he hoped to get Clayton confirmed &#8220;as quickly as possible,&#8221; <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mark-warner-vote-against-jay-clayton-dni-trump-pick\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">said Sunday<\/a><\/span> that he would vote against Clayton&#8217;s nomination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve known Jay for a long time. I like Jay. I worked well with him when he was at the SEC. But I was bitterly disappointed by his performance in front of my committee,&#8221; Warner said on &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats have also acknowledged the difficult position they&#8217;re in, with former housing official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence-trump\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Bill Pulte<\/a> serving as the acting intelligence chief since Tulsi Gabbard&#8217;s departure last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pulte has no national security background and came to prominence after accusing several of the president&#8217;s political foes of mortgage fraud. Mr. Trump&#8217;s selection of him prompted Democrats to walk away from a deal to reauthorize a warrantless surveillance authority known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It expired on June 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the expiration, the president announced that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jay-clayton-trump-director-of-national-intelligence\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nominating Clayton<\/a> as director of national intelligence. And Senate Republicans moved to quickly confirm him to break the logjam on the surveillance program. But days later, Mr. Trump abruptly pushed the Senate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jay-clayton-senate-confirmation-hearing-director-of-national-intelligence\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cancel plans to move forward<\/a> with Clayton&#8217;s nomination when it became clear that it could prevent Pulte from temporarily taking the helm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite Democrats&#8217; opposition on the committee, Clayton is expected to be confirmed given the Republican majority in the Senate. Warner said with Pulte currently in the role, &#8220;we&#8217;re a little rock-in-a-hard-place here,&#8221; though he acknowledged that Clayton &#8220;will probably get confirmed.&#8221; The Virginia Democrat added, &#8220;I hope we see the Jay Clayton that I have known and have worked with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one thing I also know is, the absolute disaster we have right now with the acting DNI, Bill Pulte, who has no intelligence experience, who has nothing but loyalty to Trump,&#8221; Warner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><br \/>\n    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