Trump chooses another novice to be his Director of National Intelligence

[Sandy Shanks]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

The real intelligence community is hunkering down and hoping to wait out Trump. The spy guys are quite resilient!

A political hack for a political post..stop the presses!

 

[Harpy Eagle]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

Trump did not choose a novice, Trump choose a yes man. He will do any and everything Trump tells him to do and he will never question Trump nor disagree with him.

Trump has proven the only qualification he looks for is how well the person's lips fit on his ass

 

[ColonelAngus]

Trump expressed confidence Ratcliffe could "rein in" intelligence agencies which he asserted had "run amok."

Sounds good to me.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Considering decades of so called "professionals" have had us in perpetual war I'll take a novice and see what we get.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Trump expressed confidence Ratcliffe could "rein in" intelligence agencies which he asserted had "run amok."

Sounds good to me.

Come on now, even you have to admit that his only qualification is his loyalty to Trump.

 

[Oddball]

The real intelligence community is hunkering down and hoping to wait out Trump. The spy guys are quite resilient!

A political hack for a political post..stop the presses!

"The real intelligence community" missed 9/11™, gave us shit intel on Iraq, missed the fall of the Soviet Union, missed the Tsarnaev brothers, missed the "Arab Spring", missed Nikolas Cruz, lied to the FISA court on numerous occasions.....Yeah, we really need those assholes.

 

[depotoo]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

Guess House Intelligence Committee is nothing, huh? Or as Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security for the Eastern district of Tx, either, huh?
Dennis Blair didn’t even have that, just the Navy when appointed by Obama.

 

[occupied]

Considering decades of so called "professionals" have had us in perpetual war I'll take a novice and see what we get.

If the intelligence community is doing it's job correctly you will never know their victories, their heroes or their dead. We only hear about their failures or when the politicians fail to heed their intelligence or make up their own facts.

 

[Oddball]

Considering decades of so called "professionals" have had us in perpetual war I'll take a novice and see what we get.

If the intelligence community is doing it's job correctly you will never know their victories, their heroes or their dead. We only hear about their failures or when the politicians fail to heed their intelligence or make up their own facts.

Spoken like a true neocon Bushbot.

Their job is so secret, that even they don't know what they're doing.

 

[skye]

No problem with Rep. John Ratcliffe(Republican from Texas)

No problem at all!

Great choice Mr President!

 

[okfine]

The real intelligence community is hunkering down and hoping to wait out Trump. The spy guys are quite resilient!

A political hack for a political post..stop the presses!

Believe me you, anything out of the ordinary will get acted on. All eyes and ears.

 

[Markle]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

Yes, and his appointments are doing great jobs! He's not going to be skulking through the alleys of Moscow going to a dead drop from a Chinese spy!

Admit it, you'll whine like a little girl whose dollie has been taken away from her regardless of who he appointed.

Bringing in someone from outside is done every day within huge corporations. Fresh eyes.

 

[bripat9643]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

Trump isn't going to nominate some deep state douchebag from inside the intelligence community.

 

[bripat9643]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

Trump did not choose a novice, Trump choose a yes man. He will do any and everything Trump tells him to do and he will never question Trump nor disagree with him.

Trump has proven the only qualification he looks for is how well the person's lips fit on his ass

In other words, he didn't hire a deep state douchebag who is going to stab him in the back.

 

[Blackrook]

The entire intelligence network should be purged and replaced with new people who aren't backstabbers and traitors.

 

[Crepitus]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

I agree. No one with any experience wants to ruin his or her career working for tRump, and Ratliff is a rabid tRumpling. That's what tRump wants. Not loyalty to the country or the Constitution. Loyalty to him personally.

 

[kyzr]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

I agree. No one with any experience wants to ruin his or her career working for tRump, and Ratliff is a rabid tRumpling. That's what tRump wants. Not loyalty to the country or the Constitution. Loyalty to him personally.

Ratcliff is a prosecutor by trade.
His talents should enable him to clean up the intel agencies of deep state hacks.

 

[JLW]

The real intelligence community is hunkering down and hoping to wait out Trump. The spy guys are quite resilient!

A political hack for a political post..stop the presses!

"The real intelligence community" missed 9/11™, gave us shit intel on Iraq, missed the fall of the Soviet Union, missed the Tsarnaev brothers, missed the "Arab Spring", missed Nikolas Cruz, lied to the FISA court on numerous occasions.....Yeah, we really need those assholes.

You are wrong on nearly all counts. The intelligence community warned Bush that Osama Bin Laden was a threat and Bush/Cheney ignored it; the intelligence in Iraq was manipulated by Bush to justify the Iraqi Invasion.

It is the politicalization of intelligence that is the problem not the intelligence.

The politicalization of intelligence is what Trump wants and that is the danger to our security.

Wake the fuck up.

 

[imawhosure]

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

Trump did not choose a novice, Trump choose a yes man. He will do any and everything Trump tells him to do and he will never question Trump nor disagree with him.

Trump has proven the only qualification he looks for is how well the person's lips fit on his ass

In other words, he didn't hire a deep state douchebag who is going to stab him in the back.

The entire intelligence network should be purged and replaced with new people who aren't backstabbers and traitors.

DNI Dan Coats was fired on July 28. His firing was likely connected to the intelligence community's response to Trump's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, 2019. That response earned Trump two Articles of Impeachment. Since Coats' dismissal seven months ago, the U.S. has been without a permanent DNI.

CNN reports, "President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, as his permanent director of national intelligence, the second time the President has attempted to make the loyalist lawmaker his spy chief."

CNN continued, "Ratcliffe had been nominated as Trump's DNI pick after Dan Coats stepped down from the post in July 2019, but the Texas congressman withdrew his name from consideration after lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about his qualifications."

Trump withdrew Ratcliffe to serve as his intelligence chief in August because he padded his résumé. Also, there was bipartisan concerns about his experience, meaning lacking thereof. Also, Ratcliffe misrepresented his role in prosecuting terrorism and immigration cases.

Ratcliffe's résumé is just as bereft of intelligence experience now as he was in July. Trump nominated him anyway. One possible reason: Qualified intelligence supervisors want nothing to do with Trump's concept of intelligence.

Ratcliffe, as a member of the House Intelligence Committee is a consumer of intelligence products. So, to say Ratcliffe is experienced in intelligence is akin to saying that a person who drives a car has an intimate knowledge of how a car is made.

Ratcliffe's two main qualifications for the job are, 1)He is extremely loyal to Trump. 2)He provided a stalwart defense of Trump in the House impeachment inquiries.

For these reasons, Ratcliffe is less likely to provide intelligence Trump doesn't like. Failure to provide pleasant intelligence to the President cost former DNI's their jobs, Dan Coats and Joseph Maguire. A loyal political hack with zero intelligence experience, Richard Grenell, is the current acting DNI. He won't give Trump unpleasant intelligence, either.

I agree. No one with any experience wants to ruin his or her career working for tRump, and Ratliff is a rabid tRumpling. That's what tRump wants. Not loyalty to the country or the Constitution. Loyalty to him personally.

Ratcliff is a prosecutor by trade.
His talents should enable him to clean up the intel agencies of deep state hacks.

It's the same old thing fellas. Look how they treat Barr and Durham. The Left knows EXACTLY why these key people have been put in place, and it isn't to kiss Trumps a**. The massive resistance to what is coming, forces Trump to have people in place that are going to go through with it, and not try and protect their swamprat friends.

This site, and other sites, along with the MSM, continuously have DNC people come on and throw stuff against the wall to see which one is a better attack for them. These are just trial balloons to see which of their narratives is most effective.

You seen it with Barr, then Durham, and Kavanaugh, now Ratcliff. The pieces are being put in place in government, to prosecute and expose what happened and who did it. Not to mention--------->pieces are being removed from government that would continue to try and cover up, or make excuses for the people who are going to be held responsible. These changes must be enacted before the saga begins, and the Left will try everything they can to stop it from coming out before Novembers election.