Hillary Clinton Just Told Federal Officials to Defy Trump Spy Chief Bill Pulte

Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election partly because of her secret email server.

This week she asked federal employees for a favor involving Trump's new intelligence chief.

Clinton's specific request for career officials handling Bill Pulte is already drawing outrage.

Clinton Tells Elias She Wants Officials Slow-Walking Pulte

Clinton sat down this week with Marc Elias, the Democratic elections attorney known for challenging Republican wins in court.

He asked her whether Trump's new acting Director of National Intelligence could open the door to foreign election interference.

Clinton did not hesitate.

"This is a naked partisan takeover of the director of national intelligence," Clinton said.

She went further than criticism.

Clinton told him she hopes career and political appointees across federal agencies are "slow-walking or refusing to share information with Pulte," according to Just the News.

That is a former Secretary of State, once entrusted with the nation's deepest secrets, publicly rooting for federal workers to defy the man leading America's intelligence community.

Clinton called Pulte "very dangerous."

She branded him a "loose cannon" with no intelligence background.

She said his appointment was "deeply insulting" to the intelligence community.

Then she added a line that will not age well for Democrats who spent four years demanding the intelligence community stay independent from politics.

"I am sure they are cheering it in Beijing and Tehran and Moscow," Clinton said, framing Trump's own personnel choice as a gift to America's enemies.

The Deep State Has Done This Before

This is not the first time Washington's permanent bureaucracy has tried to outlast an elected president it dislikes.

Acting Attorney General Sally Yates ordered the Justice Department not to enforce Trump's travel ban in January 2017, days into his first term.

A senior Trump administration official penned an anonymous op-ed in September 2018 boasting about working from inside the government to slow down the president's agenda.

Clinton is now doing the same thing out loud, on a podcast, with her name attached.

Pulte has spent the last month proving exactly why Clinton is nervous.

He fired more than fifty career intelligence officials since taking over the office last month.

CBS News and CNN reported he dismissed six political staffers chosen by former DNI Tulsi Gabbard and sent forty-five others back to their home agencies.

"The Deep State firings have begun," one source told CNN.

Pulte responded by praising the staff who remain, saying the counterterrorism team is "doing an incredible job protecting our Country."

Trump has made clear he wants Pulte to open the books, not close them.

He told reporters this week that he authorized Pulte to "declassify almost everything" during his time atop the intelligence community.

Trump wants the opposite of what Clinton is asking for.

The Woman Who Ran a Secret Server Wants Others to Hide Records

Nobody in American politics has less standing to lecture the country about handling classified information than Hillary Clinton.

She ran a private email server out of her house as Secretary of State specifically to avoid the same oversight she now claims to worship.

The FBI found evidence that classified material passed through that server.

She was never charged.

Millions of Americans have not forgotten it.

That same instinct for secrecy is now aimed at someone else's classified information.

Clinton did not stop at hoping for bureaucratic resistance.

She called for outside groups to sue the administration and try to remove Pulte from his post entirely.

"I don't know why there hasn't been a lawsuit brought," Clinton said, arguing Pulte is "manifestly unqualified under the statute."

Congress gave the president the authority to pick his own DNI, acting or otherwise.

Federal employees swore an oath to the Constitution, not to Hillary Clinton's comfort level with who holds the job.

Every career official who slow-walks a lawful order from Pulte because Clinton told them to is choosing personal politics over the chain of command.

That is not whistleblowing.

That is exactly the kind of unaccountable bureaucracy conservatives have warned about since Trump's first term, and this time a former Secretary of State is asking for it by name.

Sources:

• Cristina Laila, "Hillary Clinton Tells Deep State Officials to Refuse to Share Information with Acting DNI Bill Pulte," The Gateway Pundit, July 2, 2026.
• Staff, "Hillary Clinton Urges Intel Not to Share Data With Pulte," Newsmax, July 2, 2026.
• Staff, "Hillary Clinton urges federal employees to refuse to share information with Pulte," Just the News, July 1, 2026.
• Staff, "Hillary Clinton: I Hope People Inside Intelligence Agencies Are Slow Walking Or Refusing To Share Information With Pulte," RealClearPolitics, July 2, 2026.