Director of the CIA under Donald Trump. In congressional hearings on March 18th 2026 he insisted that morale at the agency was high, citing a 32-year veteran who said it was "the best year I can ever remember". He claimed human sources—the agency's bread and butter—were up by 25%, as was foreign-intelligence collection overall; collection on China had doubled. "This year the CIA is on track to hire and deploy more officers than at any point in the last quarter-century," he said.
Ratcliffe's public emphasis on intelligence collection as the CIA's core business, rather than the objective analysis of what is collected—a supposedly co-equal task—is seen by some analysts as a snub. When asked whether Trump received a daily intelligence briefing, Ratcliffe dodged the question, saying instead that he briefed the president on intelligence matters 10 to 15 times a week on average.
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