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So, do you feel safe now?
Ratcliffe, the man literally in charge of ensuring that the nation is safe on a daily basis and that the president of the United States has access to the clearest, best, most accurate information in the world appears instead to be qualified in the president’s eye simply and precisely because of his history of politicizing facts, ignoring truths, and obfuscating honest conversations.
Years before all Republicans voted to confirm him last week as the DNI, the 108th Congress tried to stop a man like Ratcliffe from assuming that very role in the first place. They wrote into the law that created the job, 50 U.S. Code § 3023, “Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise.”
And John Ratcliffe definitely doesn’t.
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