Colorado Springs Gazette Article RatingTrump picks former top US spy John Ratcliffe to lead CIA
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50% Medium Conservative
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40% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
50% Medium Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-27% Negative
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55% : He will be a fearless fighter for the Constitutional Rights of all Americans, while ensuring the Highest Levels of National Security, and PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH," Trump said in a statement announcing the nomination.49% : He was the most junior member of the House Intelligence Committee, with just six months on the panel, when Trump first said he wanted to appoint him in July 2019.
44% : Ratcliffe served as the nation's top spy from late May 2020 until Trump left office in January 2021.
36% : It was the second time Trump nominated Ratcliffe for the post.
36% : Trump has had a rocky relationship with intelligence agencies, including the CIA, accusing their employees of being part of the "deep state," his term for career federal employees he accuses of pursuing their own agendas.
33% : As DNI, Democrats and former intelligence officials accused him of declassifying intelligence to benefit Trump and his Republican allies.
26% : But Republicans supported Ratcliffe when Trump picked him again, saying the office of DNI was too important to be filled with only acting officials.
20% : The Republican-led Senate later acquitted Trump, the only U.S. president to be impeached twice.
19% : Trump quickly abandoned Ratcliffe's first nomination when members of Congress worried he was too inexperienced and too partisan.
17% : He became known as an outspoken defender of Trump during the Democratic-led proceedings that resulted in Trump's 2019 impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.