WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.

Ratcliffe, 59, is now the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.

He misrepresented the facts in that executive order because it said that we had suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation,” Brennan said during an MSNBC interview.

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The US Senate has confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet. Mr Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Mr Trump’s ...

has faced bipartisan criticism over past comments supportive of Russia and 2017 meetings with former Syrian President Bashar Assad. Trump and other Republicans have criticized the work of the CIA ...

Trump has had a rocky relationship with U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, over findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to sway the vote to him. Intelligence ...