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We’re not where we’re supposed to be,
Ratcliffe told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee Ratcliffe really is focused on that human intelligence aspect and also a reorientation toward what he sees as the biggest national security threat, which is China,
I want the record to show that I strongly oppose the nomination,
Democrat Ron Wyden said Tuesday There was criticism throughout the hearing that the CIA has gone soft on collecting human intelligence, on stealing foreign adversary secrets,
Tyler McBrien, the managing editor of Lawfare, told VOA Our world is far too dangerous for any delay in having a Senate-confirmed leader in charge of the CIA,
Senators Tom Cotton and Mark Warner said in a statement Monday, after their committee advanced Ratcliffe by a 14-3 margin Under the Biden administration, the intelligence community made some notable misses,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican, told fellow lawmakers Tuesday, citing failures to anticipate the rapid collapse of the U.S.-supported Afghan government in 2021 and the incorrect predictions that Russian forces would quickly overrun Ukrainian defenses at the start of the Kremlin’s invasion To the brave CIA officers listening around the world, if all of this sounds like what you signed up for, then buckle up and get ready to make a difference,
We will collect intelligence, especially human intelligence, in every corner of the globe no matter how dark or difficult,
he told lawmakers at the time There may be no agency more important than the CIA that has to be fact-based. Sometimes, these facts will lead to inconvenient conclusions for his superiors and the president,
In 2020, I opposed his confirmation to be director of national intelligence because I believe his partisanship and willingness essentially went to the proposition of doing what would please Donald Trump,
I will respectfully vote no, not because of our political difference, which of course exists, but because I am deeply worried that Mr. Ratcliffe will be unable to stand up to people like Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard, who are known to falsify intelligence,
Mr. Ratcliffe brings the right experience and the right approach to the CIA,
If you look at my record and my record as DNI, that never took place,
I suspect Ratcliffe is going to come in like a wrecking ball to the woke deep staters,
said a source familiar with his plans There are challenges within the intelligence community and skepticism,
It would be fair to say his tenure was one of the worst things that has ever happened to the agency,
I say this: Under President Trump and under me at the CIA, someone's race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, and preference shouldn't inhibit anyone's success, nor should it be an entitlement to success or advancement,
I don't really understand the objection to Mr. Ratcliffe. He was confirmed by the Senate to be the director of National intelligence. He was fully vetted through the bipartisan process in the Senate Intelligence Committee. We voted him out yesterday on a 14 to 3 vote,
Cotton, also the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, continued And so really, I think the question before the House is, do we want a vote on these folks on Tuesday or vote on them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Because that's what we're going to do,
he said, threatening weekend votes in the upper chamber OK, so 14 to 3 coming out of the committee. And we've now wasted a whole day where we could have been acting on that nomination."
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., expressed his frustration with the objection on the floor, saying
