The nomination, June 14 -- Donald Trump has finally named a permanent director of national intelligence, and the way he got there says more than the choice itself. His first instinct was to hand the nation's eighteen spy agencies to Bill Pulte, a housing-finance official with no intelligence background whose only obvious qualification was loyalty. The backlash was severe enough that Congress let a marquee surveillance law lapse rather than empower him. Now, forced to retreat, Trump has reached for Jay Clayton, his U.S. attorney in Manhattan, a more conventional pick that solves the immediate problem while creating a quieter one: it pulls a prosecutor out of the country's most independent law-enforcement office at exactly the moment that o...