Trump CIA pick John Ratcliffe vows to root out political ‘biases,’ focus on threats from China

CIA Director-designate John Ratcliffe vowed in his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would excise “political or personal biases” and make the spy agency “the ultimate meritocracy” — while refocusing its energy on China as the “top national security threat” to the US.

Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence in the first Donald Trump administration, announced before the Senate Intelligence Committee he would return the Company to its “core mission” of collecting foreign intelligence on America’s adversaries in a strictly “apolitical” manner.