US president-elect Donald Trump has picked Devin Nunes as President's Intelligence Advisory Board chairman.
Taking to Truth Social, Trump wrote, "I am pleased to announce that I will appoint Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes as Chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which consists of distinguished citizens from outside of the Federal Government."
Who is Devin Nunes?
Donald Trump named ally Devin Nunes, a former lawmaker who now runs Trump's Truth Social platform, to serve as chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board https://t.co/a7nkSy3pjF pic.twitter.com/LbrX6rArlv
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 15, 2024
Devin Nunes, who is the CEO of Truth Social, is also a former House Representative from California between 2003 and 2022. He is also the CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group.
Nunes was the former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from 2015 to 2019. Trump hopes this experience will help Nunes lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Nunes resigned from the House panel on January 1, 2022, to lead Truth Social.
Earlier, Nunes hit the headlines when he accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of spying on Trump allies.
Pointing out his role in "exposing the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax," Trump said Nunes will "provide me with independent assessments of the effectiveness and propriety of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s activities."
Trump also nominated Constellations Group CEO Bill White as the US ambassador to Belgium and IBM executive Troy Edgar as deputy secretary of the Homeland Security department. Edgar was formerly DHS chief financial officer.
Former US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell was appointed as a Presidential Envoy for Special Missions and is expected to work in "some of the hottest spots around the World, including Venezuela and North Korea.
