(FILES) Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 24, 2019. US President Donald Trump on June 11, 2026, named prosecutor Jay Clayton as his new intelligence chief, after a backlash from Republicans over his bid to install an inexperienced ally in the post. Trump's naming of loyalist housing official Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence earlier this month despite having no intelligence background had sparked an uproar. Clayton is a US attorney for the Southern District of New York and a was director of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Trump's first term in office. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)