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.
A former U.S. Representative from Texas is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence agency. John Ratcliffe, who previously represented the 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2020, was tapped this week to be CIA director for the upcoming administration.
Texans have been tapped to run the CIA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture.
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.
Ratcliffe, 59, is now the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.
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.
THE grandson of former US president John F Kennedy has blasted Donald Trump’s official order to release the secret assassination files. Thousands of classified files around the shock 1963
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.
Trump’s executive order marks the onset of his administration's promised governance of transparency and public access to sensitive governmental records.
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.