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Trump Again Selects Rep. John Ratcliffe to Be Intelligence Chief

Source: WSJ:
February 28, 2020 at 07:28
Trump has nominated John Ratcliffe, a Republican congressman from Texas, as director of national intelligence. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Trump has nominated John Ratcliffe, a Republican congressman from Texas, as director of national intelligence. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

WASHINGTON—President Trump said he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe as his director of national intelligence, reviving a selection that foundered last year over concerns about his qualifications and fears he would politicize the nation’s spy apparatus.

On Twitter Friday, the president praised the Texas Republican as “an outstanding man of great talent!”

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