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Senate confirms John Ratcliffe

The Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, giving Trump his second Cabinet member

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead America's premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the

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John Ratcliffe Confirmed as C.I.A. Director

He has offered a vision for a more aggressive spy agency, and his focus on the threat from China is widely shared by Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

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Senate confirms John Ratcliffe for CIA director

Ratcliffe, Trump’s former director of national intelligence, sought to reassure senators that he would remain apolitical in his role as CIA director.

C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants ...

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John Ratcliffe, Trump's CIA pick, tells senators the agency is 'not where we’re supposed to be'

John Ratcliffe ... the changes could make the country less safe. If approved, Ratcliffe would succeed outgoing CIA Director William Burns. Ratcliffe would be the first person to serve as ...

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New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to 'restore' trust

Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 ...

The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding

WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory, ...

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