John Ratcliffe Confirmed

Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to be Trump's CIA director
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director, approving the second high-level appointment for the new Trump administration.
Former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe confirmed as CIA director
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed former Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to serve as the next director of the CIA on Thursday.
Senate Overwhelmingly Confirms John Ratcliffe To Lead CIA Despite Dem Holdouts
The Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
John Ratcliffe Confirmed as CIA Director
The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence, as head of the CIA on Thursday by a 74-25 vote. In November, then-President-elect Donald Trump announced his selection of Ratcliffe as the next director of the intelligence agency.
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
John Ratcliffe confirmed as next CIA director, becomes second Trump nominee to gain congressional approval
John Ratcliffe was confirmed to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday, making him the second of President Donald Trump's cabinet picks to secure their position.
Senate confirms Trump CIA director John Ratcliffe as GOP speeds up national security picks
Ratcliffe faced a brief delay to his nomination from Democrats questioning his independence from President Donald Trump.
Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as CIA director
Former Congressman John Ratcliffe is the nation's new CIA director after the Senate voted 74-25 in favor of his confirmation on Thursday.
'John Brennan, Gina Haspel era is over': Ratcliffe, allies promise workforce changes at CIA
CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned his agents of "changes" to come under his leadership in a memo obtained by Fox News ...
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Trump CIA pick John Ratcliffe vows to root out political ‘biases,’ focus on threats from China
CIA Director-designate John Ratcliffe vowed in his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would excise “political or personal biases” and make the spy agency “the ultimate meritocracy ...
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John Ratcliffe, Trump's CIA pick, says the agency is 'not where we’re supposed to be'
Video above: John Ratcliffe says 'we face what may be the ... Ratcliffe assured the lawmakers that he would put the CIA's mission first. “Will you or any of your staff impose a political ...
John Ratcliffe confirmed by the Senate to become Trump’s CIA director
Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.
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CIA becomes latest intel agency to conclude COVID-19 likely originated from Chinese lab leak
Without providing details about why the spy agency was changing its position, the CIA informed reporters of its new position on Saturday, just two days after John Ratcliffe was sworn in as the ...
Trump 2nd term live updates: White House confirms outage of Medicaid portal
President Donald Trump's executive order authorized 2,500 federalized National Guardsmen to be deployed to the active duty ...
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CIA now favors lab-leak theory, as critics of covid response take power
It was completed before the new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, was sworn in on Thursday, but Ratcliffe ordered it to be declassified and made public, said a federal official who spoke on the ...
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A Brief Trade War and Other Weekend Political News As It Happened
On Sunday night, the White House announced that Colombia had agreed to accept U.S. military deportation flights and Trump’s trade war measures would not be enacted after the country’s president, ...