John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump's new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), told Breitbart News that his mission is to restore the world's greatest intelligence agency to its core purpose. He said exclusively that he believes it is to undo the lasting damage caused by one of his predecessors, John. Brennan did it to the CIA.
“It's fair to say his tenure was one of the worst things to ever happen to the CIA,” Ratcliffe told Breitbart News about Brennan on Thursday in his first interview as CIA director. Ta.
Ratcliffe, who served as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) during President Trump's first term, was sworn in shortly after being confirmed as President Trump's new CIA director on Thursday afternoon. He spoke with Breitbart News on Thursday in an interview as CIA Director, covering a wide range of topics that focused on the challenges facing the Intelligence Community (IC) in general, and the CIA in particular, and how he views his role there. We had a conversation. on the condition that they support President Trump's policy implementation. In this interview, Ratcliffe also covered some of the world's major arenas, from China to Russia to the Middle East. But Brennan's very harsh criticism came after his security clearance was revoked by President Trump along with 51 other intelligence officials who falsely claimed Hunter Biden's laptop was the product of Russian disinformation. It is certain that it will become big news and signal the arrival of a completely new era. I'm in the CIA.
“I think there are challenges and skepticism within the intelligence community,” Ratcliffe told Breitbart News. “That's because the American people saw that example. They saw the FBI exploiting FISA court intelligence to spy on the Trump campaign. They saw my The intelligence community, which had seen through the declassification, knew in the summer of 2016 that Hillary Clinton was funding the Steele dossier, which resulted in the FBI 's Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller investigation, leading to the entire Russian collusion hoax. And in 2020, they saw Brennan. [James] Clapper et al. even though Adam Schiff knew and understood that Hunter Biden's laptop was part of a Russian disinformation operation, and that there was no intelligence to corroborate that. -This is amplifying this lie that Schiff started telling. Ultimately, the FBI and Justice Department used the laptop as central evidence in Hunter Biden's prosecution and guilty plea. ”
Asked whether former President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden weeks before leaving office and then did the same for several family members in his final moments as president, the Biden family is corrupt, confirming once and for all that the Biden family is corrupt. The critics are right, Ratcliffe says. “That's right. This is validation of that,” Ratcliffe said.
Ratcliffe also said he believes one of his primary duties as CIA director will be to “return the agency to its original mission” and cut through the political nonsense started by Brennan during President Barack Obama's tenure. said.
“So I think this challenge should be one of my focuses. It's about keeping the CIA on its core mission and being the premier foreign intelligence agency, collecting human intelligence, Return to original duties such as being objective in international affairs The analysis of that information, the conduct of covert actions authorized only by the President based on the President's direction and presidential authority, and the counterintelligence mission of keeping U.S. national security information safe, all of which are It’s not going to change,” Ratcliffe said. “But it's about restoring public confidence in the ability of the intelligence services, especially the CIA, to do that. We talked about that during the confirmation process, and we talked about what we're going to do about it. The most important thing. It's about moving away from what caused all the failures, all the mistakes, all the missteps that we just talked about, which is the politicization of the intelligence community. That actually started during John Brennan's tenure.”
Mr. Ratcliffe said that Brennan's well-publicized efforts to “modernize” the CIA actually ended up harming the agency in retrospect, and that Brennan's efforts to undo the damage he had done to the agency were difficult. He said he would be spending a lot of time.
“The so-called 'modernization' of the CIA when he was director was actually a politically motivated, bureaucratically imposed social justice agenda,” Ratcliffe told Breitbart News about Brennan. told. “The immediate fallout and fallout was that from that point on, every measure of success was that the CIA's performance deteriorated. The agency collected less and lower quality information, and the analysis of that information It continued throughout his tenure, and as I mentioned earlier, the timing of the 51 Lied Spies' letter coincided with an increasingly politicized career in intelligence. It was the top President Trump wants to end that. He told me he wants to bring the CIA back to meritocracy, to produce better intelligence, and to make the kinds of intelligence failures we talked about. , the talks in Afghanistan, the assessment in Ukraine, the failure of Hamas on October 7th, and now Syria collapsed just a few weeks ago. All of these are relevant to policy makers. Good decisions are hostage to good information and good intelligence, and we have to get back to that. That's the mandate from President Trump. You know, my priorities become his priorities. He sets the policy, and as his CIA director, I set the policy, whatever that policy is. Provides excellent information for We need good intelligence to end the Krajina war.We need good intelligence to counter China's movements in the Taiwan Strait and to hold China accountable for the coronavirus. He needs good intelligence to stop him from acquiring and funding terrorism across the Middle East. That's what it's all about, and I'm excited about the opportunity to do that. I am confident that we will do just that.”
Asked to further specify what was wrong with the Obama administration's CIA director, Ratcliffe pointed to his well-documented radicalism — Brennan boasted that he once voted for a Communist Party presidential candidate. It was a combination of insanity and a dedication to radical social justice rather than meritocracy that deeply damaged the CIA. Your reputation will grow in the long run. Mr. Ratcliffe said he had discussed with Mr. Trump how to fix that problem, undo the damage and return the CIA to a meritocracy. In other words, regardless of one's background, one's qualifications and achievements determine success.
“We start with someone with a political history who voted Communist,” Ratcliffe said. “So many people were surprised that President Obama chose him as director in the first place, but what the CIA and intelligence agencies are supposed to do is completely apolitical, and we don't let politics influence intelligence operations. I just explained how to do that. Mistakes are made, errors in judgment are made, and American lives are lost. So when we move away from that idea and move towards a social justice agenda where people are promoted just because they tick a certain box, we know that that is not acceptable. We talked about what we're demonstrating across all federal agencies. DEI The termination includes the Central Intelligence Agency. Under President Trump and under me at the CIA, someone's race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, or preference determines someone's success. I don't say it should be a hindrance, nor should it be a right to success or advancement. In many cases, that's what happened, and it has happened, so we're returning to a true meritocracy, where everyone in the federal government ranks to the best of their ability. can be reached and that should be an indicator of success. ”
Ratcliffe's first interview as CIA director, including a detailed discussion of China and artificial intelligence, is expected to be released soon.
