Newly confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe didn’t pull punches in his first interview.
He’s describing ex-CIA head John Brennan’s tenure as “one of the worst things that has ever happened to the Agency.”
Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s go-to guy for fixing the Intelligence Community, says he’s focused on restoring the CIA’s core mission.
He also has to clear up the mess that’s been left behind.
Ratcliffe brings to remembrance the time Brennan and pals called Hunter Biden’s laptop Russian disinformation.
It’s time to fix the CIA.
Draining the swamp is always the first step.
And yet the left INSISTS no one is intentionally having an anchor baby… pic.twitter.com/gNANJZrmWE
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 24, 2025
Breitbart reports:
President Donald Trump’s newly confirmed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, John Ratcliffe, told Breitbart News exclusively that he views his mission as restoring the world’s most preeminent intelligence agency to its core primary objectives and undoing the lasting damage that one of his predecessors, John Brennan, did to the CIA.
“It would be fair to say his tenure was one of the worst things that has ever happened to the Agency,” Ratcliffe told Breitbart News of Brennan on Thursday in his first interview as CIA director.
Ratcliffe, who served as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in Trump’s first term, was just confirmed Thursday afternoon as Trump’s new director of the CIA and sworn in shortly thereafter. He sat for his interview as CIA director on Thursday with Breitbart News, a broad and wide-ranging conversation that focused on the challenges that face the Intelligence Community (IC) as a whole, the CIA in particular, and how he views his role in terms of helping Trump execute his agenda. Ratcliffe also covered several major world theaters, from China to Russia to the Middle East, in this interview. But his very harsh criticism of Brennan, whose security clearance was just revoked by Trump along with the other 51 intelligence officials who falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was a product of Russian disinformation, is sure to make major news and marks a totally new era being ushered in at the CIA.
“There are challenges within the Intelligence Community and skepticism, I guess,” Ratcliffe told Breitbart News. “It’s because the American people saw examples of that. They saw the FBI misuse intelligence authorities at the FISA courts to spy on the Trump campaign. They saw through my declassification when I was DNI notes that the Intelligence Community knew in the summer of 2016 that Hillary Clinton had funded the Steele Dossier but yet it resulted in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller investigation and the whole Russia collusion hoax. Then in 2020 they saw Brennan, [James] Clapper, and others amplify this lie that Adam Schiff started about Hunter Biden’s laptop being a Russian disinformation operation when everyone related to that did know and understand that there was no intelligence that supported that. Ultimately the FBI and Department of Justice used that laptop at the central piece of evidence in the prosecution of Hunter Biden and his guilty plea.”
BREAKING 🚨 Vice President Vance is swearing in John Ratcliffe as CIA Director. Historic moment
This is what winning looks like 🔥
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) January 24, 2025
We’re so back pic.twitter.com/LywqQvRzbA
— John Ratcliffe (@JohnRatcliffe) January 24, 2025
The CIA’s house of cards is falling as the old guard is being removed.
And here it is,
Holy Shit,
the CIA Kept the 51 intel letter hidden from then the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe,
Maria Bartiromo
“Why didn’t they ask John Ratcliffe, the most senior sitting official who was Director of National Intelligence, to sign the 51… pic.twitter.com/craMOb5TSC— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) January 22, 2025
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