Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence, refused on Wednesday to explicitly say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during a contentious Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., where senators also pressed him about subpoenas of New York Times journalists and his awareness of a raid on a Georgia election office.
Clayton, a former Securities and Exchange Commission chair who now serves as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York was nominated more than a month after Mr. Trump announced his pick and weeks after the president abruptly postponed an earlier hearing; the confirmation process has been complicated by the interim appointment of Bill Pulte and by partisan disputes over surveillance law renewals and election integrity.
