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[[File:Ratcliffe.jpg|right|300px|thumb|John Ratcliffe]]

[[File:Ratcliffe.jpg|right|300px|thumb|John Ratcliffe]]

'''John Ratcliffe''' ([[Republican]]) is the representative from [[Texas]]' 4th Congressional District in the [[U.S. House]].  Ratcliffe was first elected to Congress in 2014. Ratcliffe is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Ethics Committee. Ratcliffe is a lead Republican questioner in the [[Democrat]]s [[2019 impeachment inquiry]].

'''John Ratcliffe''' ([[Republican]]) was appointed [[Director of Naional Intelligence]] in May 2020.

On July 28, 2019, [[President Donald Trump]] (R) said he was nominating Ratcliffe to be the [[director of national intelligence]] (DNI).  On August 2, 2019, Trump announced that Ratcliffe had decided to stay in Congress.

Ratcliffe previously served as representative from [[Texas]]' 4th Congressional District in the [[U.S. House]].  Ratcliffe was first elected to Congress in 2014. Ratcliffe was a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Ethics Committee. Ratcliffe

In November 2017, President Donald Trump signed a bill sponsored by Ratcliffe to help law enforcement investigate and prevent cyber and electronic crime.

In November 2017, President Donald Trump signed a bill sponsored by Ratcliffe to help law enforcement investigate and prevent cyber and electronic crime.

===James Comey===

==Trump-Russia investigation==

Rep. Ratcliffe questioned disgraced FBI director [[James Comey]] about Comey's decision not to recommend prosecution of [[Hillary Clinton]] after her 4th of July 2016 holiday weekend interview with FBI investigators [[Peter Strzok]] and [[David Laufman]]. FBI Documents reveal Comey decided more than six weeks earlier before the investigation was completed.<ref>Shaw, Adam (October 18, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/18/james-comey-drafted-statement-ending-hillary-clinton-email-probe-interviewing/ James Comey Drafted Statement Ending Hillary Clinton Email Probe Months Before Interviewing Her]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved October 18, 2017.</ref><ref>https://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/01/james-comey-may-have-committed-perjury-chaffetz-says</ref><ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/08/31/confirmed-comey-decided-he-wasnt-going-to-refer-hillary-for-prosecution-before-interviewing-key-witnesses-n2375767?amp=true</ref><ref>https://www.axios.com/gop-senators-comey-had-draft-statement-clearing-clinton-before-fbi-interview-2480037436.html</ref>

Rep. Ratcliffe questioned disgraced FBI director [[James Comey]] about Comey's decision not to recommend prosecution of [[Hillary Clinton]] after her 4th of July 2016 holiday weekend interview with FBI investigators [[Peter Strzok]] and [[David Laufman]]. FBI Documents reveal Comey decided more than six weeks earlier before the investigation was completed.<ref>Shaw, Adam (October 18, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/18/james-comey-drafted-statement-ending-hillary-clinton-email-probe-interviewing/ James Comey Drafted Statement Ending Hillary Clinton Email Probe Months Before Interviewing Her]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved October 18, 2017.</ref><ref>https://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/01/james-comey-may-have-committed-perjury-chaffetz-says</ref><ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/08/31/confirmed-comey-decided-he-wasnt-going-to-refer-hillary-for-prosecution-before-interviewing-key-witnesses-n2375767?amp=true</ref><ref>https://www.axios.com/gop-senators-comey-had-draft-statement-clearing-clinton-before-fbi-interview-2480037436.html</ref>

{{clear}}{{Quotebox|Mr. RATCLIFFE. ...If there was ever any possibility that something Hillary Clinton might have said on July 2 could have possibly resulted in criminal charges that might possibly have resulted in a trial against her relating to this classified information, well, then, to use your words, Director, I don’t think that there is any reasonable prosecutor out there who would have allowed two immunized witnesses central to the prosecution proving the case against her to sit in the room with the interview, the FBI interview, of the subject of that investigation.  And if I heard you earlier today, in your long career, I heard you say that you have never had that circumstance. Is that—did I hear you correctly?  

{{clear}}{{Quotebox|Mr. RATCLIFFE. ...If there was ever any possibility that something Hillary Clinton might have said on July 2 could have possibly resulted in criminal charges that might possibly have resulted in a trial against her relating to this classified information, well, then, to use your words, Director, I don’t think that there is any reasonable prosecutor out there who would have allowed two immunized witnesses central to the prosecution proving the case against her to sit in the room with the interview, the FBI interview, of the subject of that investigation.  And if I heard you earlier today, in your long career, I heard you say that you have never had that circumstance. Is that—did I hear you correctly?