President Trump says he will again nominate Rep. Ratcliffe as US director of national intelligence.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a Cabinet-level position, oversees the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies and is the president's principal adviser on intelligence issues.
Trump has said he made the switch because under the Vacancies Reform Act, Maguire would have to clear out of the position in early March. Current and former intelligence officials, however, have told NBC News that the presidentearly because he was angry about a briefing his deputy gave lawmakers that said Russia is interfering in the 2020 election to aid his re-election.
"We now have an intelligence chief who should not have been fired, an unqualified nominee who should not be confirmed, and an acting director who is patently unfit. All while our elections are perilously at risk of foreign interference. Just the way the President likes it," tweeted Rep. Adam Schiff, D.-Calif., the chair of the House Intelligence committee that Ratcliffe sits on.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Trump was replacing"one highly partisan operative with another."
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