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The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the nation’s intelligence community, approving U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence in a 51-47 party-line vote. Clayton, who currently serves as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, will assume leadership of the …

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is delaying the nomination of federal prosecutor Jay Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence, linking the move to a broader effort to pressure Congress into passing a voter identification bill and renewing a key federal surveillance authority. In a lengthy post …

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will nominate Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to serve as the next director of national intelligence (DNI), selecting a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman with no prior intelligence background to lead the nation’s spy community. In a social media post, Trump urged …