Under Trump, CIA plots bigger role in drug cartel fight
The CIA is developing plans to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledges to get tough on Mexico’s drug cartels, but ...
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CIA Set To Take Larger Role In Fight Against Cartels, Including Potential Covert Actions
CIA Director John Ratcliffe plans to apply counterterrorism methodologies developed over the past two decades to operations ...
Could US-China communications be another victim of Trump's budget cuts?
Donald Trump's sweeping cuts to the US federal government may hamper China's efforts to establish regular communication channels with the new administration, according to diplomatic observers. The CIA ...
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The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report released Saturday was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns. It was ...
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CIA now favors lab-leak theory, as critics of covid response take power
It was completed before the new CIA director, John Ratcliffe ... remain plausible,” the agency’s spokesperson said. William J. Burns, who served as CIA director under Biden, requested that ...
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The Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, giving Trump his second Cabinet member
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director ... position to Cabinet level under Ratcliffe's predecessor, William Burns, and Trump's White House lists ...