26 May 2020 update: Ratcliffe gets his foot in the door, had reentered himself as Trump’s DNI pick and is confirmed by the Senate.
3 August 2019 update: Ratcliffe was dumped by Trump pretty quickly, wasn’t he? As an equal opportunist anti-shadow government provocateur, I’d spammed this nomination killing tidbit that could not eradicated (backed up at Archive Today web capture) all over the spook world, including member of Congress (intelligence oversight) and a certain infamous three letter acronym at Langley, Virginia (CIA.) Stay tuned, this game isn’t up, we’ll see where the rabbit hole’s labyrinth takes us next…
“Mayors Bill Cecil (Rockwall), John Harper (Rowlett), John Ratcliffe (Heath), Jerrell Baley (Royse City), Michael Donegan (McLendon-Chisholm), and Bill Broderick (Fate) will host the non-denominational event
““We are excited to announce that our guest speaker this year will be Tim Barton, who is with the nationally acclaimed organization, Wallbuilders, which presents America’s forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious and constitutional heritage,” said Rockwall Mayor Bill Cecil in a prepared release.
“The son of David Barton, founder of Wallbuilders, Tim excels in his presentations on worldview and on the truth of America’s heritage” [1]
So, when he was a member of a petty cabal of small-town religious-right mayors in Texas, the soon to be Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, hosted America’s premier historical revisionist organization, Wallbuilders, where a top representative (son of founder David Barton) of the noted organization had been invited to ‘educate’ his constituency:
“He has been described as a Christian nationalist; his work is devoted to advancing the idea that the United States was founded as an explicitly Christian nation and rejecting the consensus view that the United States Constitution calls for separation of church and state. Scholars of history and law have described his research as highly flawed, “pseudoscholarship” and spreading “outright falsehoods”” [2]
Now, this raises a clearly unpalatable question for America’s intelligence community [IC], because if Ratcliffe actually believes the USA had been founded as a Christian or theocratic republic, his is a zero mentality, worse than ‘short-bus slow.’ And if he DOES know better, he is a willful traitor to the Constitution and nation.
Question: Is John Ratcliffe merely a clueless, religious-right moron soon to be in charge of America’s IC or is Ratcliffe a willfully treasonous Christian ayatollah soon to be in charge of America’s IC?
Ronald Thomas West 