Trump pick for spy chief faces Senate confirmation hearing
by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times
May 05, 2020
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The Senate Intelligence Committee convened Tuesday - at a distance - to vet Rep. John Ratcliffe, the Texas Republican whom President Donald Trump has nominated for the second time as director of national intelligence.
Trump first said he would nominate Ratcliffe to lead the nation's intelligence community in July. But the president withdrew his name less than a week later amid reports that he had misrepresented his anti-terrorism experience as a
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