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Senate confirms China hawk John Ratcliffe as Trump’s CIA director
The US Senate confirmed China hawk John Ratcliffe as the next director of the CIA on Thursday after Democrats had stalled his final floor vote — further setting back the timeline for ...
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CIA becomes latest intel agency to conclude COVID-19 likely originated from Chinese lab leak
Without providing details about why the spy agency was changing its position, the CIA informed reporters of its new position on Saturday, just two days after John Ratcliffe was sworn in as the new ...
Covid-like bat virus discovered at SAME LAB in China accused of leaking pandemic bug with fears it could infect humans
A NEW bat coronavirus has been discovered at the same Chinese lab at the centre of the Covid lab leak theory storm. Scientists have raised fears that this new virus – which shares ...
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The CIA joins the anti-China bandwagon on COVID origins, despite lack of any evidence
Vice President JD Vance follows John Ratcliffe into the room before ... Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a rabid anti-China hawk, commended Ratcliffe Saturday for declassifying the ...
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The CIA Wakes Up About Covid’s Origin
China. That was the news this weekend after new CIA director John Ratcliffe released an agency assessment that the Biden Administration had declined to make public. “I had the opportunity on my ...
Could US-China communications be another victim of Trump’s budget cuts?
Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the US federal government may hamper China’s efforts to establish regular communication channels with the new administration, according to diplomatic observers. The CIA ...
Under Trump, CIA plots bigger role in drug cartel fight
The CIA is developing plans to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledges to get tough on Mexico’s drug cartels, but ...
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Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, giving Trump his second Cabinet member
The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director ... the first member of Trump's Cabinet. Ratcliffe has said he views China as America's greatest geopolitical rival, and that ...
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John Ratcliffe confirmed as next CIA director, becomes second Trump nominee to gain congressional approval
John Ratcliffe was confirmed to be the next director ... Ratcliffe will also take a hawkish stance towards China, too, according to people close to Ratcliffe, the Wall Street Journal reported ...
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'John Brennan, Gina Haspel era is over': Ratcliffe, allies promise workforce changes at CIA
EXCLUSIVE: CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned his agents of ... COVID-19 originated in a lab or a wet market in Wuhan, China. Ratcliffe recently told Breitbart News he no longer wanted the ...
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Ratcliffe says Trump wants ‘politics out of the intelligence community’
John Ratcliffe, the new Central Intelligence Agency ... that found the COVID-19 virus originated in a lab in China. “Part of what we have to do is, we have to restore Americans’ trust in ...