The US Senate approved John Ratcliffe as the new Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director on Thursday (Jan 23). He was officially sworn in by Vice President JD Vance, marking a significant appointment in President Donald Trump's administration.
WASHINGTON — Former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, vowed to make the agency more muscular while keeping its work apolitical during his nomination hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
The former Texas congressman said the CIA needed to return to its core missions following criticism from Donald Trump the agency was politically biased.
Ratcliffe, 59, is now the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.
The US Senate has confirmed John Ratcliffe as the new director of the US foreign intelligence agency CIA by a large majority. 74 senators voted for him, 25 against him, including many Democrats. Ratcliffe was then sworn in by Vice President J.
Trump's former director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, is set to have his confirmation hearing as Trump's pick for director of the CIA on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — 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.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director under President Donald Trump, approving the second high-level appointment for the new administration.
In the early 1990s, the federal government mandated that all JFK assassination-related documents be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration. The order notes that although no congressional act directs the release of information on the assassinations of Robert F.
Former Heath Mayor John Ratcliffe was confirmed on Thursday by the U.S. Senate as President Donald Trump’s CIA director and will head up America's premier spy agency.
Ratcliffe, Trump’s former director of national intelligence, sought to reassure senators that he would remain apolitical in his role as CIA director.