FPI / January 24, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct New CIA Director John Ratcliffe bluntly criticized the intelligence agency’s penchant the last four years for staying on the “sidelines” during major crises such as the Covid pandemic. “One of the things that I’ve talked about a lot is addressing the threat from China on a number of fronts, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2022 Over the last year he served as Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, John Ratcliffe said he saw enough intelligence to be convinced that China was the greatest security threat to the United States. Over the last 8 months, however, Ratcliffe said the ineptitude of Joe Biden […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 4, 2022 John Ratcliffe and Cliff Sims, who were senior intelligence officials in the Trump administration, agreed with 62 percent of respondents in a Harvard-Harris poll who said Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump was still in the Oval Office. “Trump not only successfully deterred Russia from acting […]
FPI / February 16, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct Based on intelligence he has seen, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said he expects more criminal indictments will result from special counsel John Durham’s investigation of Democrats’ attempts to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia. “I’ve been saying there’d be indictments before there were any, and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2021 Joe Biden’s disastrous handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has “breathed new life” into the worldwide Islamic terrorist movement and U.S. intelligence officials will not know the damaging extent of Biden’s actions for “a long, long time to come,” former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said. In […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2021 John Ratcliffe, Trump administration Director of National Intelligence, said that he “could make an argument that the first five months of the Biden administration have been the best of Vladimir Putin’s political life.” “Just from an economic standpoint, folks know that Vladimir Putin was 3-0 when it comes to […]
FPI / January 29, 2021 Geostrategy-Direct.com Trump administration Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe suggested U.S. intelligence agencies played partisan political games by downplaying China‘s role in interfering in the disputed Nov. 3 presidential election. An Intelligence Community (IC) assessment of China’s interference in the election could have triggered enforcement of President Donald Trump’s 2018 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2020 The Intelligence Community (IC) is “purposely stonewalling” assessments and reports on foreign interference in the 2020 election for political reasons, an intelligence source told The Epoch Times. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe was notified by “career intelligence officials” on Dec. 16 that the IC was unable to meet […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2020 Communist China interfered in the 2020 presidential election, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has confirmed, according to CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge. However other U.S. intelligence agencies have defied President Donald Trump’s 2018 executive order by missing the Dec. 18 deadline that Ratcliffe honored. Related: Did Trump set […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 19, 2020 There is no evidence to support Rep. Adam Schiff’s widely-publicized contention that the Hunter Biden laptop was somehow planted by the Kremlin, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said. “It’s funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the […]
