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John Ratcliffe: “No one's asked me about my second day on the job here where…”

Featuring: John Ratcliffe, Republican | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | National

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John Ratcliffe Fires Back At Democrats Grilling Him About Signal Scandal

Published | Video Starts at 00:38

And you can say that you care about the good work that agencies are doing like the CIA, and that you care about 140 stars on the wall, but No one's asked me about my second day on the job here where I lit the fuse that led to a foreign government participating with us to capture one of the senior planners of the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 Americans. 13Americans. And in the process, we worked with a government that previously hadn't. So that hadn't cooperated with us on counterterrorism matters or the fact no one has focused on that. (00:38–00:52)

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Asserts that he initiated cooperation with a foreign government to capture a planner of the Abbey Gate bombing.

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