Lawsuits over providers' compliance with the authority could occur, should a statutory lapse occur, two former officials previously told me.
Our recent coverage of the recertification:
www.nextgov.com/policy/2026/...
POTUS says Pulte will take over as acting DNI beginning June 19. Gabbard was originally supposed to leave her post at the end of this month.
The remarks are an acknowledgment that agencies can't protect every system equally through patching, and must instead focus their often limited resources on networks whose compromise could cause the greatest damage. AI-enabled threats have also informed the directive, he said.
Some other things he said that aren't in story:
- Hiring sprint underway in CISA to bring 329 new people, ~180 will have offers by end of month
- SFS interns have already started this pay period, he told reporters. My most recent CyberCorps/SFS story here:
www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...
CISA will soon release a directive pushing agencies to stop treating every cyber vuln as equally urgent, acting director Nick Andersen said. “If we try to say that everything is equally as important, then absolutely nothing’s going to be important.”
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As one former senior national security official told me earlier:
POTUS says Pulte will take over as acting DNI beginning June 19. Gabbard was originally supposed to leave her post at the end of this month.
"President Trump said he wants Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence, to begin the process of firing a large number of employees as part of a shake-up of the U.S. intelligence community." per WSJ
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David DiMolfetta
Note that the civil liberties community views the June 12 deadline as a bogus due to the nature of the 702 certification process.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
