John Ratcliffe

President Donald Trump warned Sunday that the “clock is ticking” for Iran to strike a deal to bring the conflict to an end, urging Tehran to move quickly toward an agreement as he warned the regime risks being “hit badly” if negotiations continue to stall amid mounting questions over whether diplomacy can prevent renewed fighting.

President Donald Trump on Monday declared that the fragile ceasefire with Iran was on “massive life support” with only a “1% chance of living” after rejecting Tehran’s latest proposal as “garbage” and “totally unacceptable.”

President Donald Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Monday detailed a high-risk rescue deep inside Iran in which U.S. forces — aided by a CIA-led “deception campaign” — raced “against the clock” to locate and recover a wounded airman concealed in a mountain crevice, “invisible to the enemy, but not to the CIA,” after his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down, while evading capture for nearly two days behind enemy lines.

U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies are scrambling to determine who is actually running Iran after the regime’s newly installed “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei — who has not been seen or heard from publicly since the opening strikes of the war that killed his father — again failed to appear publicly for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with officials warning there is “no proof that he is taking the helm” and describing the situation as “beyond weird.”

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, March 19.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has emerged as President Donald Trump’s “quiet hammer,” a source close to the White House told Breitbart News for an in-depth profile of the world’s premier spy agency in the first year back in office for Trump.

Wounded 24-year-old West Virginia National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe was revealed to be making “extraordinary progress,” according to MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

The Obama administration withheld reports revealing Ukrainian officials questioned the legitimate purpose of Vice President Joe Biden’s 2015 visit to Ukraine as questions swirled regarding his corrupt business dealings in Ukraine, newly declassified documents show.

During this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe offered remarks on the release of the Durham Annex, tied to the so-called Russia-gate “hoax.”

More files may link failed 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to the origins of the Russia collusion hoax that targeted President Donald Trump.

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe suggested that, despite the expiration of a statute of limitations on possible crimes committed by members of the outgoing Obama administration during the 2016 election, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper may still face criminal liability.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched an investigation into former FBI Director James Comey and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan over their roles in the investigation surrounding President Donald Trump and Russia allegedly colluding.

Former CIA Director John Brennan may be exposed to perjury problems after current CIA Director John Ratcliffe released an internal review of the agency’s Russia hoax materials, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

WASHINGTON — CIA Director John Ratcliffe ripped Democrats during a closed-door briefing of senators on Thursday by comparing President Donald Trump’s successful airstrikes eliminating Iran’s nuclear program to former President Barack Obama’s failures with his Iran nuclear deal, Breitbart News has learned.

Newly-declassified files revealed that Robert F. Kennedy Sr. served as a “voluntary informant” to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) before his 1968 assassination.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has launched a social media campaign to persuade Chinese officials to turn against their authoritarian regime and leak secret information to the United States.

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that the Signal chat among senior national security officials shows President Donald Trump’s second administration was “drunk with power.”

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe “lied” under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee when denying classified information was included in a Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, March 26.

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe testified to the Senate Tuesday that government officials are authorized to use the encrypted messaging application Signal for work, following the disclosure that the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic got inadvertently added to a group chat of senior Trump national security officials.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) harped on President Donald Trump’s national security officials after a journalist was inadvertently added to an encrypted group chat that discussed military strikes before they occurred — despite his own recent history of secret messages with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch closely allied with Vladimir Putin getting leaked.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe both said in sworn testimony to the Senate on Tuesday that there was no classified information or material shared on the group chat created by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to coordinate on military strikes against the Houthis.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, March 25.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, less than two weeks into his tenure, is undertaking the most significant overhaul of the agency’s workforce in modern history.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe hopes his close relationship with President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, leads to deeper cooperation between the intelligence and law enforcement behemoths, Ratcliffe told Breitbart News exclusively.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News last week that President Donald Trump’s administration is considering creating a national laboratory akin to the Manhattan Project to help develop and steer the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” CIA director John Ratcliffe discussed his early findings about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in length.

The CIA now believes the COVID-19 pandemic most likely started from a laboratory leak, the agency said in a statement on Saturday. 

Vice President JD Vance swore in John Ratcliffe as CIA director Thursday night following his Senate confirmation.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in his first interview after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday that he intends to immediately get to the bottom of what the Agency knows about COVID leaking from a Wuhan lab in China.

President Donald Trump’s newly confirmed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, John Ratcliffe, told Breitbart News exclusively that he views his mission as restoring the world’s most preeminent intelligence agency to its core primary objectives and undoing the lasting damage that one of his predecessors, John Brennan, did to the CIA.

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) on Wednesday said Democrats should stop resisting efforts to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominees.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) blocked the Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, John Ratcliffe, on Tuesday evening, infuriating Republicans who say Democrats are playing political games and threatening national security.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Senate Republicans are ready to hold the Senate open “nights, weekends, and recesses” to confirm Trump’s nominees. 

John Ratcliffe testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a confirmation hearing for his appointment to become director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Wednesday, January 15.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director nominee John Ratcliffe said during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday he has shown how he can speak “truth to power,” citing his defense of the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell.