John Ratcliffe

John Ratcliffe is one of those figures who moved through the machinery of American power with quiet but real effect — lawyer, federal prosecutor, Texas congressman, and then Director of National Intelligence under Trump from 2020 to 2021, arguably one of the most sensitive jobs in the entire government. What strikes me about him is that background as a counterterrorism prosecutor post-9/11; he wasn't just a political appointee playing dress-up with classified material, he'd actually built cases against terrorists. His Notre Dame education and Illinois roots give him a midwestern, law-and-order earnestness that fits the role. Whether you agreed with his politics or not, the guy spent real years inside the national security apparatus and knew where the bodies were buried — sometimes literally. A careful operator in a world where loose lips genuinely cost lives.

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Name (English)

John Ratcliffe

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ラトクリフ

Reading

じょん・らとくりふ

Born

October 20, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

Origin

Mount Prospect, Illinois, United States

Occupation

lawyer / politician / university teacher

High school

Carbondale Community High School

University

University of Notre Dame

• Official sitehttps://ratcliffe.house.gov/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rep_ratcliffe/
• Xhttps://x.com/RepRatcliffe
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ratcliffe
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%95%20(%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AB%E5%90%88%E8%A1%86%E5%9B%BD%E3%81%AE%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%AE%B6)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16980175

Tags

• Illinois
• lawyer
• politician
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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