Longtime CIA Agent Gets Call
President Donald Trump has named Aaron Lucas as the successor to Tulsi Gabbard in her role as Director of National Intelligence. Gabbard announced her pending resignation on Friday, saying she will step down on June 30 to care for her husband Abraham Williams, who is struggling to ward off a crippling bone disease.
Lucas has served as Gabbard’s deputy director at the DNI. He is a former CIA agent, who served with the agency for nearly 20 years in a multitude of posts around the world.
Here, Fox News contributor Byron York discusses the transition and whether Lucas will encounter any resistance to his appointment when he appears before the U.S. Senate. One of the Republican members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — John Cornyn of Texas — could be smarting as he did not receive a re-election endorsement from Trump. The president encouraged voters to elect Cornyn’s primary opponent Ken Paxton.
