The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead America's premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the

The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence, as head of the CIA on Thursday by a 74-25 vote. In November, then-President-elect Donald Trump announced his selection of Ratcliffe as the next director of the intelligence agency.

Ratcliffe faced a brief delay to his nomination from Democrats questioning his independence from President Donald Trump.

John Ratcliffe was confirmed to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday, making him the second of President Donald Trump's cabinet picks to secure their position.

John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, is set to face his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Having already served in Trump's ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director, approving the second high-level appointment for the new Trump administration.

The Senate voted 74 to 25 to confirm John Ratcliffe, President Trump’s former intelligence director, as director of the C.I.A. Needed for confirmation Needed for confirmation Note: Confirmation ...

After years of speculation, the CIA has weighed in yet again: A lab leak is now considered the likely origin of the COVID pandemic. However, the agency admits it has "low confidence" in its conclusion and says both a natural origin and a research-related incident are still possible.

New CIA director John Ratcliffe says the most likely cause of the Covid 19 pandemic was a lab-related incident in Wuhan, a judgment the Biden administration kept secret.

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The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.