The advisory board will be chaired by Devin Nunes, the former Republican congressman from California.
President Donald Trump has named a new slate of appointees to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, a panel tasked with advising the president on national security and intelligence matters.
The list, announced by the White House on Feb. 11, includes a mix of former administration officials, intelligence experts, and political allies, underscoring Trump’s continued emphasis on reshaping the intelligence community to align with his “America First” agenda.
In a statement, Trump praised them as a “distinguished and trusted group of Patriots” who represent a broad range of experience and expertise, and will help “restore integrity to our Intelligence Community.”
The advisory board will be chaired by Devin Nunes, the former Republican congressman from California who became a close Trump ally and was a vocal critic of the U.S. intelligence agencies during his tenure as House Intelligence Committee chairman.
Nunes, who left Congress in 2022 to lead Trump’s media company, Truth Social, was a key figure in efforts to investigate surveillance abuses by intelligence agencies and played a central role in defending Trump during the Russia probe. One of Nunes’s most high-profile actions was authoring a memo detailing