US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.

Bill Pulte’s temporary role as intelligence director is just long enough to disrupt midterm elections, Democrats fear

Forty-five days after Congress punted a fight to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Republican leaders are staring down a new deadline.

The issue is way bigger than Bill Pulte.

Democrats say they won't vote to reauthorize the key spy authority known as FISA Section 702 as long as Bill Pulte is leading the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Democrats are withholding their votes to extend FISA Section 702 after the president appointed an acting director of national intelligence with no national security background.

Bill Pulte will begin serving as acting director of national intelligence in a week and a half, President Trump said, effectively standing by his decision to name the housing…

Congress spent another day stalled on the renewal of a key surveillance authority Tuesday, as President Donald Trump declined to help clear a legislative path and instead dug in…

President Donald Trump indicated to House Speaker Mike Johnson during a meeting Tuesday that he wouldn’t back down on his decision to elevate Bill Pulte to acting director of…

By tapping an underqualified ally for one of the most sensitive intelligence jobs on Earth, the president is risking a major legislative miss.

A critical US surveillance law faces an uncertain future as House Speaker Mike Johnson’s assertion that President Donald Trump is close to naming a permanent intelligence chief…

Unless Congress acts, a key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will expire at the end of this week.

Republicans and Democrats have lobbied President Donald Trump to immediately name a permanent director of national intelligence to make it easier to renew a key surveillance…

A key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could lapse this week if Congress doesn’t extend it.

Trump’s decision to name 38-year-old federal housing executive as acting DNI could scuttle key surveillance bill

“I have been doing this a while,” Sen. Ron Wyden told The Intercept. “And I’ve never had this kind of bipartisan support.”

US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.

Pulte's appointment has scrambled talks to renew a spy tool known as FISA 702, as lawmakers in both parties have been vocal about his lack of national security experience and role…

A rare lapse in a law that allows the U.S. to gather intelligence abroad has grown more likely

WASHINGTON (AP) — A rare lapse in a law that allows the U.S. to gather intelligence abroad is growing more likely after President Donald Trump resisted calls from Republicans and

After privacy advocates in Congress blocked proposed extensions of FISA Section 702, Trump announced he intends to nominate someone other than Bill Pulte as his next director of…