‘Not an accident’: Trump kept his own CIA director ‘out of the loop’ on Russian peace deal

General

‘Not an accident’: Trump kept his own CIA director ‘out of the loop’ on Russian peace deal

Published On : 2025-11-24

President Donald Trump’s administration appears to have excluded top intelligence officials from sensitive negotiations with a major adversary — even CIA Director John Ratcliffe.That’s according to journalist Michael Weiss, who reported Monday that Ratcliffe was “not privy” to the Russian peace deal that Trump administration special envoy Steve Witkoff has been negotiating with Vladimir Putin’s government. Weiss cited an unnamed “U.S. intelligence source” who confided: “It was not an accident CIA was kept out of the loop on an American deal with a Russian operative.”Ratcliffe wasn’t the only…

#General