by Matthew Boyle at Breitbart
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.
This source specifically pointed to how Trump sent Ratcliffe down to Venezuela just 12 days after the daring mission in which U.S. forces captured now-ousted leader Nicolas Maduro. Ratcliffe, Trump’s highest-ranking and first cabinet-level official to visit the nation since Maduro’s capture, met with acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez.
“Ratcliffe has become Trump’s quiet hammer,” this source close to the White House said. “He goes in, accomplishes whatever mission the President gave him, then disappears back into the shadows. The Agency seems to have adopted the same approach, so Trump actually deserves credit for turning the CIA into an instrument of America First power.”
For this story, Breitbart News spoke with CIA officials, Director Ratcliffe himself, and many others across the administration and those familiar with the Agency’s actions for a year-in-review look back at how Ratcliffe has handled reshaping and reforming the CIA in Trump’s vision — a monumental task given the damage done to the Intelligence Community (IC) during previous administrations and under previous CIA directors particularly John Brennan during Barack Obama’s administration…
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