Washington power players just turned one of America’s most sensitive jobs into a bargaining chip in their latest surveillance and election fights.Story SnapshotPresident Trump picked lawyer and prosecutor Jay Clayton, not a career spy, to run U.S. intelligence.Congress forced a retreat from acting Director...
Congress is selling a record defense bill as a modernization push, but the split budget structure makes the real impact harder to see.Quick TakeThe House defense debate centers on modernization, acquisition reform, and industrial-base growth.The bigger $1.5 trillion request is split between regular appropriations...