The CIA's decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story marks a step toward transparency with the American people, newly-confirmed ...

Then it caught the attention of John Ratcliffe, President Trump’s director of national intelligence. In late September 2020, ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead ...

The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, making him President Trump's second cabinet member. Ratcliffe plans to enhance the CIA's use of technology to counter threats like Russia and China ...

Ratcliffe, who served as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence during part of Trump's first term in office, was appointed with 74 senators voting in favor and 24 voting against ...

29, 2020 — the same day as the first presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden. Ratcliffe, who was nominated to his previous post in February of 2020, said the Senate’s intel panel ...

The CIA’s new director John Ratcliffe made the claim over the weekendThe CIA announced on Saturday that the origin ...

Speaking in his first interview since being confirmed as the agency's director last Thursday, Ratcliffe spelled out the insights he made public shortly after taking over the post and affirmed the ...

In late September 2020, weeks before voters would choose between Trump and Joe Biden, Ratcliffe declassified and released the CIA memo, along with some notes from an intelligence briefing given to ...

The CIA director has not always been a part of a president’s Cabinet, though President Joe Biden elevated the position to Cabinet level under Ratcliffe’s predecessor, William Burns ...