President Donald Trump's pick for national intelligence director has been mayor of a small
Texas city, a federal prosecutor and a member of Congress.
Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe is also known as a Trump loyalist, which makes his lack of relevant experience even more striking at a time when current and former government officials expect
Russia to look to interfere in the 2020 presidential
election just as it did in unprecedented
fashion when Trump first ran.
"Ratcliffe comes to the job with the least national security experience and the most partisan political experience of any previous director of national intelligence," said Michael Morell, a former acting CIA director who now hosts the "Intelligence Matters" podcast.