Tell Senate Democrats: Remove Trump’s Dangerous National Intelligence Director

Trump just appointed his political lap-dog, Bill Pulte, as acting Director of National Intelligence. Pulte has absolutely no experience in national intelligence and was clearly offered the job based on his willingness to go after Trump’s political adversaries. Thus far, this has included Senator Adam Schiff, NY Attorney General Letitia James, and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. He is even currently under investigation by the Government Accountability Office over whether he misused his authority at the Federal Housing Finance Agency to go after these “enemies.”

As acting Director of National Intelligence, he now has the power to chip away at our democracy by weaponizing surveillance, pushing the spying agencies he oversees to conduct unlawful spying or otherwise allowing it, providing politically motivated surveillance directly to Trump, and even declassifying or leaking information acquired without a warrant about those who would challenge the administration.

Congress has very little authority when it comes to blocking an acting director, but Democrats in the Senate have massive amounts of leverage right now. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is an intelligence-gathering law that is set to expire on June 12. The Trump regime is obsessed with getting it passed. Democrats must oppose FISA reauthorization until Pulte is removed from the position (and even then, only pass the law with guardrails to protect Americans from warrantless surveillance by this authoritarian regime).

Tell your senators you expect them to use all their leverage—including blocking FISA reauthorization—to remove Pulte.

Here's Your Script:

Hi, my name is [Your Name], and I’m a constituent from [Your City, State].

I am calling today to ask that [Senator Name] use every tool at their disposal to get Bill Pulte removed as acting Director of National Intelligence. Democrats must use the upcoming FISA deadline as leverage.

Pulte is unqualified and has consistently demonstrated that he is willing to abuse his authority to go after Trump’s political opponents. In this role, he has more tools than ever before to weaponize our national intelligence.

I expect Senator [NAME] to forcefully oppose this appointment and refuse to reauthorize FISA, even with necessary safeguards, until he is removed.

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Here's Your Script:

Hi, my name is [Your Name], and I’m a constituent from [Your City, State].

I expect Senator [NAME] to forcefully oppose this appointment and refuse to reauthorize FISA, even with necessary safeguards, until he is removed.

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