President-elect Donald Trump announced that John Ratcliffe, his former director of national intelligence, is his pick to lead the CIA.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that John Ratcliffe, his former director of national intelligence who has been listed as a „contributor“ to Project 2025, is his pick to lead the CIA.
„I look forward to John being the first person ever to serve in both of our Nation’s highest Intelligence positions“, Trump said in a Truth Social post.
Ratcliffe was a three-term Republican congressman before he served in Trump’s first administration in mid-2020, capping a long road to the White House inner circle.
Ratcliffe has not immediately commented on his being named and his nomination would need to be confirmed by the Senate.
Trump had first nominated Ratcliffe to the post a year in 2019, but Ratcliffe withdrew his nomination after bipartisan concerns emerged about his qualifications for the job and whether he had embellished his record as a federal prosecutor.
Ratcliffe was successfully confirmed a year later after Trump once again nominated him to be the nation’s top intelligence officer.
