CIA retracts, revises 19 past intelligence assessments deemed politically biased

The CIA on Friday said that director John Ratcliffe had ordered the retraction or "substantive revision" of 19 intelligence assessments over the past decade that were deemed to be politically biased.

In a release, the CIA included three redacted assessments from between 2015 and 2021 that related to White women's extremist radicalization, attacks on LGBT activists in the Middle East and Africa, and the COVID-19 pandemic limiting access to birth control in developing countries.

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