Republicans and Democrats praised the former lawmaker and intelligence official, who vowed not to use political loyalty tests at the CIA.

A former U.S. Representative from Texas is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence agency. John Ratcliffe, who previously represented the 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2020, was tapped this week to be CIA director for the upcoming administration.

Ratcliffe, a former director of national intelligence during Trump’s first administration, is expected to be confirmed to run the Central Intelligence Agency.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.

The Senate intelligence committee opened a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA director, John Ratcliffe, a former Republican lawmaker who was accused of using intelligence for political ends as the nation’s top spy during the incoming U.

The DNI must preserve the intelligence community’s independence and ensure its insights are valued, even under immense political pressure.

John Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA on his vision for America’s premier spy agency He is a former

Shortly after taking the oath of office today, President Donald Trump is set to revoke the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who signed

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to revoke the security clearances of the 51 national security officials who infamously claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" – many of whom were cable news commentators --  on day one of his second term in the White House.

Trump plans to suspend security clearances of former intelligence officials who wrote an infamous letter about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

In all the arguments over whether President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence is fit for the job, it’s easy to lose sight of why it matters. It matters a lot. To speak of telling truth to power seems terribly old-fashioned these days,