Another Toady For Moscow Mitch to Ram Through the Senate
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John Ratcliffe is, er, light, in having traditional qualifications for the job of director of national intelligence, but he has the one qualification necessary for a job working for Trump:
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.), President Trump’s pick to serve as the next director of national intelligence, has made his name in Congress as one of the GOP’s most dogged critics of perceived anti-Trump bias at the FBI and in the special counsel’s investigation of his alleged Russia ties.
Ratcliffe, who was first elected to the House in 2014, sits on the powerful House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, both of which are investigating President Trump for suspected financial crimes, foreign collusion and obstruction of justice. It is from that perch that Ratcliffe last week steered one of the more memorable Republican exchanges with former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III during public hearings, accusing him of violating “every principle in the most sacred of traditions” of prosecutors by writing “180 pages about decisions that weren’t reached, about potential crimes that weren’t charged or decided.”
Ratcliffe argued that Mueller had no right to say that he never exonerated Trump, because the president should have been presumed innocent until proven guilty.
And, in what is most critical for the Senate majority leader, we can be confident he won’t do anything about Russian ratfucking, so I’d expect him to get confirmed.