John Ratcliffe

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John Ratcliffe (modern U.S. politician / intelligence official)

  • Full name: John Lee Ratcliffe (born October 20, 1965)

  • American politician, attorney, and public official

  • Served as Director of National Intelligence from May 26, 2020 to January 20, 2021

  • Former U.S. Representative from Texas’s 4th congressional district (2015–2020)

  • In 2025, became the 9th Director of the CIA

John Ratcliffe (governor / colonist of Jamestown)

  • Born as John Sicklemore, c. 1549 in Lancashire, England; later assumed the name Ratcliffe

  • Was an early Jamestown colonist and served as the second president (governor) of the Virginia Colony (1607–1608)

  • His leadership in Jamestown was controversial: he was deposed as president in July 1608, and later, in December 1609, he was captured by Native Americans and met a violent death (reports say he was tortured or flayed)

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Articles by the author

China's leaders seek to subordinate the rights of the individual to the will of the Communist Party. They exert government control over companies and subvert the privacy and freedom of their citizens with an authoritarian surveillance state.

John Ratcliffe

As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president. I oversee the intelligence agencies, and my office produces the President's Daily Brief detailing the threats facing the country.

John Ratcliffe

Anyone's views on what they want the intelligence to be will never impact the intelligence that I deliver. I won't shade intelligence for anyone.

John Ratcliffe

As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I would ensure that all intelligence is collected analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political influence.

John Ratcliffe

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

John Ratcliffe

All of the threat streams that we have, from all aspects, militarily, economically, supply chain issues, foreign investment, technologically, cyber issues, cyber warfare, 5G, telecommunications - China is in all of those and they are the only country to be in that space and the only country that threatens America supremacy.

John Ratcliffe