The Senate has confirmed former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe to head the CIA Thursday. The vote was 74-25. What some may not know though is that the nation's spy chief is familiar with North ...

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John Ratcliffe, 59, is a politician and attorney. Ratcliffe served as the mayor of Heath, Texas, from 2004 to 2012 and as U.S. attorney for eastern Texas from 2007 to 2008. From 2015 to 2020 ...

John Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman who served as director of national intelligence during President Donald Trump’s first term, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to serve as CIA ...

SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - President-Elect Donald Trump has chosen former Texoma congressman, John Ratcliffe, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA. Ratcliffe formally served as the Director ...

As a freshman Republican representative from Texas, he had risen to national ... and in 2014, Ratcliffe did. [Read: The case of John Ashcroft] Getting to Washington would test Ratcliffe’s ...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director ... the nation’s premier spy agency. The Texas Republican is a former federal prosecutor who emerged as a fierce Trump defender ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe details the capture of a long-wanted terror suspect, more U.S. allies working alongside the Trump ...

Ratcliffe told senators the CIA must do better when it comes to using technology like artificial intelligence to confront adversaries including Russia and China. EU ministers to hold emergency ...