Pres. Trump's pick for the next director of national intelligence, Rep. John Ratcliffe, has misrepresented his role in an anti-terrorism case that he's repeatedly cited among his credentials related to national security issues.
President Donald Trump's pick for the next director of national intelligence, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, has misrepresented his role in an anti-terrorism case that he's repeatedly cited among his credentials related to national security issues.
His official campaign website, in a February 2016 post, also touted his"special appointment as the prosecutor in U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation, one of the nation's largest terrorism financing cases." "Because the investigation did not result in any charges, it would not be in accordance with Department of Justice policies to make further details public," Rachel Stephens, a spokesperson for Ratcliffe, said."However, Department of Justice records will confirm that as both Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security for the Eastern District of Texas from 2004-2008, John Ratcliffe opened, managed and supervised numerous domestic and international terrorism related cases.
A spokeswoman for the Northern District of Texas' office referred requests for comment to Ratcliffe's office. The Department of Justice referred questions on the matter to the White House. "People see trials and people see the high-profile stuff, and that's really just a tiny percentage of the great work that's done by law enforcement every day since 9/11," Orwig told ABC News."When you think about it, for the last 15 years, he's very much been in the national security arena, first as anti-terrorism coordinator, then as U.S. attorney, then as a congressman on the Judiciary Committee, the Homeland Security Committee and the Intelligence Committee.
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