CIA Director Ratcliffe Confirms Involvement in Secret Yemen Bombing Plans
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CIA Director Ratcliffe Confirms Involvement in Secret Yemen Bombing Plans
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This revelation comes amid a period of significant activity for the relatively new CIA director, who was sworn in on January 23, 2025, becoming the 25th person to lead the agency. Ratcliffe holds the unique distinction of being the first person in US history to have served as both CIA Director and Director of National Intelligence, having previously held the DNI position during Trump's first administration from May 2020 to January 2021.
Since taking office, Ratcliffe has implemented several controversial policies. In early February, the CIA revised its previous assessment of COVID-19's origin, changing it from "undecided" to indicating "low confidence" that the virus originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan. This shift aligns with positions previously advocated by the Trump administration.
Also in February, Ratcliffe authorized the CIA to offer buyouts to employees in exchange for voluntary resignations, signaling potential restructuring within the agency. In a more contentious move, the CIA complied with a presidential Executive Order to send the White House an unclassified email identifying first names and last initials of employees hired within the previous two years. Former intelligence officials have criticized this action as potentially compromising the identities of agents, describing it as "disastrous" for US counterintelligence capabilities.
During his confirmation hearings in January, Ratcliffe had promised to keep politics out of the agency's work, stating he would "never allow political or personal biases to cloud our judgment or infect our products." He also emphasized a renewed focus on human intelligence gathering, telling the Senate Intelligence Committee, "We will collect intelligence—especially human intelligence—in every corner of the globe, no matter how dark or difficult."
Ratcliffe's confirmation was notably bipartisan, with the Senate voting 74-25 in his favor. Twenty Democrats supported his nomination, including Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, who previously worked at the CIA.
Before his intelligence career, Ratcliffe served as a US congressman representing Texas's 4th district from 2015 to 2020 and was known as a strong Trump ally, particularly during Trump's first impeachment trial, which he described as "the weakest impeachment our country has ever seen."