Pelosi Demands Halt to Naming GOP Operative as Spy Agency Lawyer
- She calls it effort to ‘burrow’ him into sensitive position
- Ellis was aide to Nunes and a National Security Council lawyer
Nancy Pelosi also requested that the Pentagon’s inspector general open an investigation into the selection process for the post.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded that the Defense Department halt plans to install a Republican operative as the top lawyer at the National Security Agency in the closing hours of President Donald Trump’s administration.
The appointment of Michael Ellis as NSA general counsel is “highly suspect,” Pelosi told Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller in a letter dated Jan. 17 and released on Monday.