Trump's pick for intelligence director misrepresented role in anti-terror case

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: ABC

President Donald Trump's pick for the next director of national intelligence, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, has misrepresented his role in an anti-terrorism case that he's repeatedly cited among his credentials related to national security issues.

The apparent embellishment is related to two anti-terrorism financing trials in a case known as the U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation, the second of which resulted in convictions for several individuals found to have illegally funneled charity money to the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas.

In a 2015 press release, Ratcliffe's House website stated, "When serving by special appointment in U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation, he convicted individuals who were funneling money to Hamas behind the front of a charitable organization." His official campaign website, in a February 2016 post, also touted his "special appointment as the prosecutor in U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation, one of the nation's largest terrorism financing cases."

But ABC News could find no public court records that connect Ratcliffe to either of the two trials for the case. Former officials directly involved in the decade-long Holy Land Foundation investigation could not recall Ratcliffe having any role, and four former defense attorneys who served on the cases told ABC News on Monday they had no recollection of Ratcliffe being involved with any of the proceedings that resulted in the convictions of their clients.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-pick-inteligence-director-misrepresented-role-anti-terror/story?id=64646682

[padah513]

1. I'm hoping that Republican Senators

Come to their senses on this one and vote against this guy. Don't hold out much hope though.

[underpants]

2. I'm fully expecting a domestic abuse issue with this guy

Won’t shock me at all

[nwduke]

3. You mean he lied!?!

Well, he’s met one of the needed criteria to be in the trump clown show!

[dalton99a]

7. It is the most important qualification in Trumpworld.

[duforsure]

4. It's not trump picking people

It's likely it's Putin.

[dalton99a]

8. +1. Top intelligence positions had to be cleared by the real boss

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Sounds like a man after Trump's own heart

Claiming you're greater than you really are.

[pecosbob]

6. Since he was in the anti-terrorist division in East Texas

then he must have prosecuted a whole bunch of white supremacist domestic terrorists as we all know that East Texas is ground zero for home-grown terrorists. Anyone...anyone...anyone?

[Nitram]

9. He'd fit right in with this administration.

[Marcuse]

10. Steve Carrell will portray him on Saturday Night Live.

[CuriousAsterisk]

11. Of course

Of course he did.

I am not surprised.

[sakabatou]

12. Who wants to bet he'll still become director?