{"id":153085,"date":"2026-06-17T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153085"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:37:59","slug":"trump-pauses-spy-chief-hearing-to-secure-pick-for-powerful-prosecutor-postunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153085","title":{"rendered":"Trump pauses spy chief hearing to secure pick for powerful prosecutor postUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump suspended a Senate hearing on Jay Clayton\u2019s nomination for intelligence chief, saying on Wednesday he wanted to be sure Clayton\u2019s current post as prosecutor would be filled by the man of his choosing.<br \/>\nIn a game of musical chairs, Trump picked Clayton, who headed the Securities and Exchange Commission during the president\u2019s first term in office, as his director of national intelligence (DNI).<br \/>\nClayton has served as US attorney for the Southern District of New York \u2013 one&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3357446\/trump-pauses-spy-chief-hearing-secure-pick-powerful-prosecutor-post?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump suspended a Senate hearing on Jay Clayton\u2019s nomination for intelligence chief, saying on Wednesday he wanted to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}