CIA Director John Ratcliffe detailed how he will restore political neutrality to the intelligence agency, with one focus being fulfilling its role of countering terrorism.
Ratcliffe lamented the “politicization” the CIA has undergone in recent years, pointing to the agency’s initial view of Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation,” which tarnished the agency’s “apolitical” stance. As such, the CIA director said President Donald Trump wants him to return the agency to its roots and get “back to what made the CIA great.”
“The role of the CIA, Lara, is to make sure that we’re confronting and countering terrorists over there before they come over here,” Ratcliffe explained on Fox News’s My View with Lara Trump. “Whether it’s Al Qaeda or ISIS or al Shabaab, every weekend
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