Ratcliffe Memo Promises Huge Changes at the CIAโIt Will Be the 'Ultimate Meritocracy'
John Ratcliffe has been director of the Central Intelligence Agency for less than a week, but already he's buckling down and changing up the way things are done in Langley. On Tuesday, a new memo was released detailing some of the sweeping changes he has in mind.
"There will be changes during my tenure as director," the new leader of Americaโs top spy agency wrote in an agency-wide workforce message. Ratcliffe is currently reviewing all top staff and planning to put his own fingerprints on the senior level of the agency, Fox News Digital has learned.
"We will collect intelligence in every corner of the globe, no matter how dark or difficult. We will produce insightful, objective, all-source analysis, never allowing political or personal biases to cloud our judgment or infect our products," Ratcliffe went on in his email.
"And we will conduct covert action at the direction of the President, going places no one else can go and doing things no one else can do."
Trump has made ridding the federal government of divisive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs a top goal of his new administration, and Ratcliffe says he will do his part:
As agents conduct work in what Ratcliffe defined as the "most challenging national security environment in our nation's history," he promised the CIA would be the "ultimate meritocracy."
"Our shared mission will bind us together."
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