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The US Senate on Thursday confirmed as CIA director John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence during the first term of Republican President Donald Trump.
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January 23, 2025 – 9:57 p.m.
(Keystone-ATS) The upper house approved this nomination with 75 votes from the Democratic and Republican camps, against 25.
At his Senate hearing last week, Mr. Ratcliffe said that, under his leadership, the CIA would “produce insightful, objective analysis from all sources, never allowing political or personal bias to impair its judgment or contaminate its judgment.” his work.”
-He also pointed the finger at Beijing, saying the federal agency must “continue to focus and work more on the threats posed by China and the ruling Communist Party.”
John Ratcliffe also stressed the need for the CIA to understand technological advances, arguing that knowing adversaries’ capabilities in this area was “more important than ever.”
A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Ratcliffe was a Texas congressman from 2015 to 2020. A period during which he defended Donald Trump during the first impeachment proceedings against him.
He was later named director of national intelligence by the latter, a role held in 2020-2021 and was Mr. Trump’s principal adviser on the subject.
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