Acting intelligence chief Richard Grenell to keep official who infuriated Trump over Russia testimon
The intelligence community's top election security official will stay on despite angering President Trump by telling lawmakers that Russia was intervening in the 2020 election — in his favor.
The decision to keep election security coordinator Shelby Pierson is seen as an attempt to reassure intelligence officials, some of whom are concerned that newly acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, a close Trump ally, will politicize intelligence. Grenell axed his deputy on his first day in the position, drawing concern that his efforts to "clean house" would shape a partisan intelligence service that would bend to the president's will.
Pierson said she had discussed election security with Grenell on several occasions since he was appointed.
"Ambassador Grenell has not asked me to leave," Pierson told the New York Times on Tuesday. Rather, Pierson said, Grenell "encouraged and affirmed his support for my position here in the organization. I have not asked to depart nor discussed resignation in any way."
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Well that might turn out to be a short tenure.
