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CIA Director Ratcliffe: ‘Day-one thing’ to get to bottom of Chinese ‘origins of COVID,’ Wuhan lab leak
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Breitbart, National

CIA Director Ratcliffe: ‘Day-one thing’ to get to bottom of Chinese ‘origins of COVID,’ Wuhan lab leak

By Matthew Boyle | Breitbart Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in his first interview after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday that he intends to immediately get to the bottom of what the Agency knows about COVID leaking from a Wuhan lab in China. Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate Thursday and then sworn in by Vice President JD Vance as the newest director of the CIA. He spoke with Breitbart News on Thursday for his first exclusive interview, in which he laid out how he intends to reform the Agency to return the world’s preeminent intelligence service to its core mission and depoliticize it. He also ripped previous CIA director John Brennan, who led the Agency during former President Barack Obama’s administration, as being s...
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U.S. faces ‘most challenging security environment’ ever, CIA nominee John Ratcliffe says in hearing
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Fox News, National

U.S. faces ‘most challenging security environment’ ever, CIA nominee John Ratcliffe says in hearing

By Morgan Phillips  | Fox News CIA nominee John Ratcliffe is telling senators on Wednesday about how he’ll reshape the intelligence community in what he calls "the most challenging national security environment in our nation’s history."  Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during President-elect Trump's first term, is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The committee will then vote on his nomination before a full Senate vote to confirm him as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  Ratcliffe ticked off the nation’s biggest threats – China, the border, the Russia-Ukraine war and risk of nuclear fallout, Iran, North Korea and "increasing coordination among America’s rivals." READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS...
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John Ratcliffe, a former congressman and director of intelligence, chosen as Trump’s pick to lead CIA
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National, THE HILL

John Ratcliffe, a former congressman and director of intelligence, chosen as Trump’s pick to lead CIA

By Rebecca Beitsch | The Hill President-elect Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate John Ratcliffe, his former head of national intelligence, to lead the CIA. Ratcliffe, a former Texas representative, was critical of investigations into Trump while in Congress and later served as a member of his impeachment team during Democrats’ first effort to boot Trump from office. A statement from Trump praises Ratcliffe for “exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation,” being a critic of a national security program that greenlights foreign surveillance and for criticizing those who first called into question the legitimacy of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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