Trump Taps Corporate Attorney With No Intelligence Experience to Lead U.S. Intelligence Community

President Trump nominated Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence on June 11. Clayton spent most of his career in corporate law and served as SEC chairman from 2017 to 2020. His prosecutorial experience centers on financial crime and corruption, not the signals intelligence and human collection operations the DNI oversees. The Senate Intelligence Committee holds his confirmation hearing June 17.