Trump taps Ric Grenell for director of ODNI –
“Under federal law, Trump faced a March 12 deadline to appoint Maguire as his permanent nominee or to pick another acting director from those currently holding Senate-confirmed positions. In turning to Grenell to oversee the country’s 17 intelligence agencies and hold a position that each president since George W. Bush has employed differently, Trump will have a notoriously outspoken former political operative whose tenure as the top diplomat to one of America’s strongest allies has prompted broad criticism. Trump will also have a loyalist within his administration overseeing the intelligence services that the president has routinely criticized, including as having “run amok,” which he said when first appointing Ratcliffe to the DNI job.”
Grenell is most assuredly NOT a swamp creature