John Ratcliffe
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
executive
Still SeatedJohn Ratcliffe is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a former congressman who previously served as Director of National Intelligence in Donald Trump’s first term. He returned to a top intelligence role in 2025, this time leading the CIA. Ratcliffe has always projected the vibe of a prosecutor auditioning for permanent television relevance, and his intelligence career has been wrapped in the same partisan combat that made him useful to Trump in the first place. On Yeeted or Seated, he is what happens when the intelligence world and Fox-brain politics decide to co-parent a career.