Bill Pulte keeps firing career Intel staff. Wait until you see some of his past hires.

WASHINGTON ― Bill Pulte has been on a firing spree in the weeks since President Donald Trump tapped him to be his acting director of national intelligence, but some of his past personnel choices are deeply questionable ― and his agency is threatening to sue reporters who cover it.

A wealthy housing executive with no experience in intelligence or national security, Pulte, a staunch ally to Trump, has fired dozens of intelligence officials and pushed out dozens more career and political staffers since the president put him into this role on June 19.

The only government experience Pulte has is at his other job atop the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he’s been its director since March 2025. He’s been abusing this role to carry out retribution against Trump’s perceived political enemies, and a look at some of his hires there shows he’s made some highly problematic choices.

Last year, as Reuters exclusively reported in November, Pulte brought on Michigan restaurant owner Mark Zarkin as a consultant to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Zarkin, a prominent Detroit-area Trump backer with no real experience in the mortgage sector, was convicted in 2000 of a felony *** crime involving a ****** encounter with a “mentally incapacitated” woman. He served time in jail and was listed on Michigan’s *** offender registry for about nine years, according to a 2019 investigation by the Detroit Free Press.

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