Trump taps Devin Nunes to lead Intelligence Advisory Board
Donald Trump appointed his ally Devin Nunes as the chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board on Saturday. Nunes currently leads Trump's social media platform, Truth Social.
Nunes has been regarded as one of Trump's defenders for many years. As Reuters pointed out, during his tenure as chairman of a committee in the lower house of Congress, he claimed that the FBI conspired against Trump during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
During the Republican's first term in the White House, Nunes led the House Intelligence Committee. He will now remain the director of Truth Social while simultaneously serving on the advisory board.
He is to provide Trump with "an independent assessment of the effectiveness" of the intelligence community
- Devin will draw on his experience as former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and his key role in exposing the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, to provide me with independent assessments of the effectiveness and propriety of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s activities, - emphasised the president-elect.
The nomination came two weeks after Trump, who will be sworn in as president on 20 January, appointed Kash Patel as the director of the FBI. He will succeed the current head of the agency, Christopher Wray.
Trump also appointed the former head of intelligence in his administration, Richard Grenell, as his special envoy, Troy Edgar, a manager from IBM and former Department of Homeland Security official, as the deputy head of this department, and businessman Bill White as the U.S. ambassador to Belgium.
