Rep. Daniel Ratcliffe (R-TX), President Donald Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence, has displayed relatively little interest in the spy agencies he’d oversee, never taking a House Intelligence Committee trip overseas to learn more about the agencies’ work.
According to the Washington Post, all the other new lawmakers on the committee have either made such trips already, or have them planned.
He also reportedly makes few trips to the “reading room” to catch up on classified information, and only puts in cursory appearances at closed-door meetings.
Multiple intelligence officials told the Post that they’d never even heard of Ratcliffe until his aggressive questioning of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller last week.
And why would he, his mandate is to investigate those agencies, since some employees still have the audacity to be loyal Americans first and to stay out of politics
Ratcliffe has no interest in anything but power.
(Anybody else find it fitting that his surname is “Ratcliffe” – you know like “Rat going over a cliffe”… Karma appears to have a sense of humor.)
The 'Dem
and socialist ’ sign off during round one o f Muelle hearing was job clinched IMO
I’d say his promotion to DNI is the Peter Principle at work – except that he was already completely useless as a member of Congress.
Er, shouldn’t “Rep. Daniel Ratcliffe (D-TX)” actually be “Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX)”?