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President-elect Trump announced Tuesday that helium volition nominate John Ratcliffe, his erstwhile caput of intelligence, to pb the CIA.
Ratcliffe, a erstwhile Texas representative, was captious of investigations into Trump portion successful Congress and aboriginal served arsenic a subordinate of his impeachment squad during Democrats’ archetypal effort to footwear Trump from office.
A connection from Trump praises Ratcliffe for “exposing fake Russian collusion to beryllium a Clinton run operation,” being a professional of a nationalist information programme that greenlights overseas surveillance, and for criticizing those who archetypal called into question the legitimacy of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden.
“John Ratcliffe has ever been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American Public,” Trump said successful a statement.”
“I look guardant to John being the archetypal idiosyncratic ever to service successful some of our Nation’s highest Intelligence positions. He volition beryllium a fearless combatant for the Constitutional Rights of each Americans, portion ensuring the Highest Levels of National Security, and PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.”
Ratcliffe served arsenic 1 of Trump’s Directors of National Intelligence, but faced a rocky way to the position.
Trump successful 2019 withdrew his information aft pushback over concerns that Ratcliffe did not person a capable information inheritance oregon applicable acquisition to pb an bureau that coordinates each U.S. quality agencies. He besides faced questions implicit whether helium had embellished his experience working coercion cases arsenic a erstwhile authoritative connected his resume.
“Our large Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated precise unfairly by the LameStream Media,” Trump wrote astatine the time.
Trump nominated him again conscionable a fewer months later, prompting backlash from Democrats.
Then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called him a “highly partisan operative” portion then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) complained helium “has shown an unacceptable clasp of conspiracy theories.”
He was yet confirmed successful a party-line 49-44 vote.
Ratcliffe was a regular professional of the FBI and Justice Department earlier entering the quality community.
Trump’s motion to Ratcliffe’s presumption connected overseas surveillance, governed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), comes aft the then-lawmaker was a vocal professional of the Crossfire Hurricane probe into Trump, including the FBI’s flawed process for securing a warrant to wiretap Carter Page.
On Tuesday, Trump credited Ratcliffe with “catching the FBI’s maltreatment of Civil Liberties astatine the FISA Court.”
Updated 6:22 p.m.
