John Ratcliffe Confirmed as CIA Director

Trump nominee John Ratcliffe has been confirmed as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The vote, which occurred earlier today, was 74-25.

After graduating from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1989, Ratcliffe was a lawyer in private practice; he left his law firm in 2004 to join the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Texas. In 2004, president George W. Bush appointed Ratcliffe to be the chief of anti-terrorism and national security for the Eastern District of Texas, within the U.S. Department of Justice.

60 year old Ratcliffe then served as Representative from Texas’s 4th district first winning in the 2014 election and served until he was tapped as DNI by Trump in 2019.

Following the end of Trumps first term, Ratcliffe worked for several different conservative think tanks like Heritage and the America First Policy Institute. He was a contributor to Heritage’s Project 2025 on intelligence related matters.