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The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a cabinet-level United States government intelligence and security official. The position is required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP).
John Lee Ratcliffe [1] (born October 20, 1965) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the ninth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since 2025. He previously served as the sixth director of national intelligence from 2020 to 2021 and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2020.
The position of United States Director of National Intelligence was created in 2005 as a result of the 9/11 commission. Previously, the Director of Central Intelligence - also the CIA Director - was the top U.S. intelligence official.
Others of Trump's nominees, though, have followed more unusual paths to government service. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose controversial nomination barely made it through the Senate on ...
Director of National Intelligence Announced February 28, 2020 Assumed office May 26, 2020: U.S. Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Announced March 13, 2018 Assumed office April 26, 2018 [n 3] Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel of Kentucky – Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency ...
James Robert Clapper Jr. [4] was born on March 14, 1941, [5] in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of Anne Elizabeth (née Wheatley) and First Lieutenant James Robert Clapper. [6] [7] His father worked in US Army signals intelligence during World War II, retiring as a colonel in 1972 then worked in security at George Mason University in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [8]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that John Ratcliffe, his former director of national intelligence who has been listed as a "contributor" to Project 2025, is his pick to lead the CIA.
Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard [180] February 12, 2025 (Confirmed February 12, 2025, 52–48) [RC 18] Lora Shiao: January 25, 2025 February 12, 2025 Stacey Dixon [50] January 20, 2025 January 25, 2025 Director of the National Counterterrorism Center: Joe Kent: Awaiting Senate Confirmation Don Holstead [181] January 20, 2025