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John Ratcliffe, CIA and Trump

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)

The Associated Press on MSN · 3d

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

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.

Covid-19 Pandemic, CIA

New York Sun · 34m

CIA Now Says, With ‘Low Confidence,’ That Lab Leak Was Most Likely Source of Covid-19 Pandemic

The Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source for the virus. But under new agency director John Ratcliffe, the CIA has changed its view, which is now in line with that of the Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

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

The CIA believes the COVID-19 virus likely originated from a laboratory — but acknowledges the spy agency has 'low confidence' in its own conclusion.

POLITICO on MSN · 1d

CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.

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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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Cotton pitches tariffs on China to make it pay for ‘unleashing’ COVID-19

Cotton's pitch comes after the CIA switched its view on the origins of COVID-19 to the belief it likely originated from a Chinese lab leak.

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Eye on the Capitol | Congressional votes for the week of Jan. 17-23

Along with this week's roll call votes, the House also passed a bill (H.R. 207), to direct the Secretary of Commerce to ...

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Trump Vows Economic War With Colombia: Live Updates

It may be the first international bluster-off of the second Trump administration. Colombian president Gustavo Petro shared a ...

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Ratcliffe says Trump wants ‘politics out of the intelligence community’

John Ratcliffe, the new Central Intelligence Agency director, said President Trump wants to keep politics “out of the ...

Trump should rethink revoking former officials’ security details, Tom Cotton says

President Donald Trump should rethink his decision to remove security details from three former senior national security ...

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Live updates: Pritzker urges Trump to speak out against Musk; Graham says Bolton should have kept security detail

President Trump’s whirlwind of a first week included him making good on several campaign promises as his cabinet picks were ...

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Live updates: Outgoing DNC chair says Dems should build on current infrastructure; Vance says Hegseth is a ‘disrupter,’

President Trump’s whirlwind of a first week included him making good on several campaign promises as his cabinet picks were ...

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