The Man in the Middle of Trump’s Deeply Conflicted Ukraine Policy
CIA Director John Ratcliffe leads an agency that’s at war with Russia, even as Trump makes nice with Putin.
Shane Harris
Shane Harris is a staff writer at The Atlantic covering national security and intelligence. He can be reached on Signal at shaneharris.64. He has written about intelligence, security, and foreign policy for more than two decades, including as a staff writer for The Washington Post, where he was part of the team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In 2023, he co-reported the documentary The Discord Leaks with PBS Frontline, which was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding investigative news coverage. He is the author of two books, The Watchers and @War.
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