The director of national intelligence is a cabinet-level United States government intelligence and security official. The position is required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act o
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John Lee Ratcliffe is an American politician and attorney who has served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2025. Ratcliffe served as the director of national intelligence from 2
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…DNI. Clapper was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5, and replaced acting director David C. Gompert. The fifth DNI, Dan Coats, the sixth DNI, John Ratcliffe, and acting DNIs Joseph Maguire, Richard Grenell and Lora Shiao, all served between March 16, 2017, and January 21, 2021, during the first administration…
Official portrait, 2020
Ratcliffe speaks to KETR in February 2015.
Ratcliffe (left) standing next to president Donald Trump in 2017
Ratcliffe (left) monitoring the U.S. intervention in Venezuela from Mar-a-Lago