John Ratcliffe, the new CIA director appointed by the president, has pledged significant modifications, asserting that the CIA needs to return to its core mission of human intelligence collection.

Trump has long criticized America’s intelligence agencies, and his new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, has promised big changes, claiming the CIA has strayed from its original focus on human ...

Trump has long criticized America's intelligence agencies, and his new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, has promised big changes, claiming the CIA has strayed from its original focus on human ...

John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the ...

Mr. Ratcliffe has also told members of Congress that the C.I.A. needs to rebuild its human intelligence collection efforts: case officers recruiting Chinese officials to steal secrets from the ...

Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the CIA, the nation’s premier spy agency.

Signals intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency, including intercepted phone calls, texts and emails, is a bedrock of intelligence collection and contributes to at least 60 percent ...

President-elect Barack Obama stunned the national intelligence community by selecting Clinton White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta, a longtime Washington insider with little intelligence ...