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Anonymous ID: baa18e May 5, 2020, 5:25 a.m. No.9036783   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6806 >>6814 >>6836 >>6839 >>6990 >>7039

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/04/delicious-dynamic-john-ratcliffe-odni-confirmation-hearing-tomorrow-senate-intel-committee-930am-et/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/politics/ratcliffe-intelligence-director-confirmation.html

 

By Nicholas Fandos and Julian E. Barnes

Published May 4, 2020

Updated May 5, 2020, 7:30 a.m. ET

 

WASHINGTON — President Trump first picked Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas to be the nation’s intelligence chief last summer, but resistance in the Republican Senate was so firm that Mr. Ratcliffe’s name was withdrawn before his nomination ever became official.

 

Eight months later, Mr. Ratcliffe is back. On Tuesday, he will step before many of those same lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing to be the director of national intelligence — this time as a full-fledged nominee whose prospects have vastly improved as Republican opposition has softened.

Anonymous ID: baa18e May 5, 2020, 5:37 a.m. No.9036839   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6917

>>9036783

 

Drops go from 1 August 2019 to 2 November 2019

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/politics/trump-ratcliffe-dni.html

 

Trump Drops Plans to Nominate John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence

 

By Charlie Savage, Julian E. Barnes and Annie Karni

Aug. 2, 2019

 

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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday abruptly dropped his plan to nominate Representative John Ratcliffe, Republican of Texas, as the nation’s top intelligence official after questions by Republicans and Democrats about his qualifications and concern over whether he had exaggerated his résumé.

 

Mr. Ratcliffe, a vocal supporter of Mr. Trump, had come under intense scrutiny since the president declared on Sunday on Twitter that the lawmaker was his pick to succeed Dan Coats, who is stepping down as director of national intelligence on Aug. 15. The selection generated scant enthusiasm among senators of both parties, who would have decided whether to confirm him.

 

Mr. Trump, in his post announcing that Mr. Ratcliffe would not be his nominee after all, spoke bitterly of the attention that Mr. Ratcliffe’s overstated claims about his experience as a federal prosecutor quickly received from the news media.

 

“Our great Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated very unfairly by the LameStream Media,” he wrote.

 

The announcement was another reversal for the president and underscored the recurring dysfunction in the White House selection and vetting process that has plagued the administration. Mr. Ratcliffe joined a long list of Trump administration appointees who have had to pull their names after the president announced his plans to put them in powerful posts without a full picture of potentially disqualifying details.

 

Mr. Trump promised to announce a new nominee soon. Pete Hoekstra, the American ambassador to the Netherlands and a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is one of the leading candidates for the post, according to two people briefed on the discussions. He wants the position, they said, and his long service on Capitol Hill and work helping create the job of director of national intelligence could make him more palatable to senators…

Anonymous ID: baa18e May 5, 2020, 5:52 a.m. No.9036944   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9036917

 

I won’t play the DC game where I am supposed to stay silent while reporters get to erroneously define issues.

I work for the American people & this is how we communicate with them. Welcome to 2020.

PS: it’s “you’re”.

@StevePasquale

https://twitter.com/StevePasquale/status/1256442748380557312

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7:43 AM · May 2, 2020

 

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1256549761236246528