美国国会议员担忧，毫无情报工作经验的住房官员比尔·普尔特（Bill Pulte）即将执掌政府最强大的监控工具之一。

US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.

他称，撤回该项任命是一项必要但不充分的交易条件：“这只是起点，而非终点。”他说，“随后，我们才能判断是否能以负责任的方式推进，使法律中纳入足够多的改革措施，从而设立监管框架并保护美国民众。”

Withdrawing the appointment, he said, was a necessary but not sufficient condition for a deal: “That’s a starting point, not an ending point,” he said. “And then we can see if we can responsibly get to a place where there are enough reforms built into the law to provide guardrails and protect the American people.”