Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 lab leak theory is a step toward transparency.
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.
Vice President JD Vance has sworn in John Ratcliffe as the nation's CIA director, shortly after the Senate confirmed Ratcliffe on a vote of 74-25.
He has offered a vision for a more aggressive spy agency, and his focus on the threat from China is widely shared by Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
As the virus spread across the globe in 2020, top health officials widely argued that COVID-19 was a naturally occurring pathogen, despite many speculating otherwise. Ratcliffe said releasing the ...
The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency in overwhelming bipartisan fashion, making him the second member of President Trump’s national security team
The finding, released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, is not the result of new intelligence.
The CIA's decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story marks a step toward transparency with the American people, newly-confirmed ...
As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the nation’s exit from the World Health Organization. Here, we explain how the withdrawal would work and what it would mean,
Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health Organization.
More than half of Americans believe the U.S. benefits from its membership in the WHO. As of April 2024, 25% of U.S. adults say the country benefits a great deal from its membership, while about one third say it benefits a fair amount. Conversely, 38% say the U.S. does not benefit much or at all from WHO membership.