How the CIA director helps the US navigate a world of spies, threats and geopolitical turbulence
Effective espionage and covert action are likely to prove crucial for blunting threats that nations such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea pose to the U.S. They will be key to monitoring the ...
John Ratcliffe, tapped by Trump to lead the CIA, will face questioning in the Senate
John Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, is a former federal prosecutor and ...
Fact Check: NOPD Superintendent wears police badge inverted as per tradition
Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick wearing her police badge “upside down” is part of a longstanding department tradition that ...
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CIA director pick John Ratcliffe vows new focus on intelligence gathering in confirmation hearing
Washington — John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be CIA director, promised the Senate Intelligence Committee that if he's confirmed, the CIA would be rededicated to its ...
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Trump CIA pick John Ratcliffe vows to root out political ‘biases,’ focus on threats from China
CIA Director-designate John Ratcliffe vowed in his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would excise “political or personal biases” and make the spy agency “the ultimate meritocracy ...
Playbook: The indoor inauguration’s winners and losers
— WINNER: The U.S. Secret Service. Yes, a presidential inauguration is probably the most intricately planned, thoroughly ...
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Trump CIA pick Ratcliffe faces Senate questions on politicized intelligence
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, John Ratcliffe, on Wednesday vowed not to fire or force out employees for their political views or their ...
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Carrying a badge - and a Ph.D.: Worcester police officer on duty with cybersecurity degree
Assigned to the cybercrime and forensic unit for the last decade, Bisceglia is a detective sergeant and also serves as a task ...
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John Ratcliffe, Trump’s CIA pick, tells senators the agency is ‘not where we’re supposed to be’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA told senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that the nation’s premier spy agency must do a better job of ...
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Trump’s CIA Pick Expected to Push for Bare-Knuckle Spycraft Against China
Trump’s choice to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, is likely to push for more aggressive spying operations targeting Beijing if confirmed to lead the most storied U.S. spy ...
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I was enrolled in ‘gifted’ classes as a child — I now believe it was a CIA training program
Adults who were enrolled in the Gifted And Talented Education program (GATE) decades ago as children are now questioning if they were unknowingly being covertly trained by the CIA. Adults who were ...
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John Ratcliffe promises to prioritize China threat as CIA director
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, John Ratcliffe, promised the Senate Intelligence Committee that he and the agency would increase the focus on China during his confirmation ...