Bill Pulte, an unpopular mega-oligarch with a net worth of $100m has already removed about 50 USIC employees who have mortgages to pay, families to feed, school loans to pay back, income taxes to file, and children to raise.

"If [Bill Pulte] doesn't care about blowing up cyber exploits, putting foreign relationships at risk, or getting people killed, he could declassify a lot," one former official warned.

US allies and intelligence partners are not going to like this development one bit.