President Trump's newly confirmed CIA director John Ratcliffe is pledging to end the politicization of the intelligence community that began under President Obama and his CIA chief John Brennan.

"It would be fair to say his tenure was one of the worst things that has ever happened to the Agency,” Ratcliffe said in a Breitbart interview.

Brennan, a notorious partisan known for bashing Trump on cable news, was a key player in driving the bogus "Russian collusion" hoax that plagued Trump during his first term, and later, Brennan signed a notorious and misleading letter that suggested Hunter Biden's laptop was fake.

Undoing Brennan's damage

Americans are now skeptical of the intelligence community after years of abuses that began under the Obama administration, including the FBI's notorious spying on the Trump campaign, Ratcliffe pointed out.

"Then in 2020 they saw Brennan, [James] Clapper, and others amplify this lie that Adam Schiff started about Hunter Biden’s laptop being a Russian disinformation operation when everyone related to that did know and understand that there was no intelligence that supported that. Ultimately the FBI and Department of Justice used that laptop at the central piece of evidence in the prosecution of Hunter Biden and his guilty plea.”

The Senate confirmed Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist, to lead the CIA in an overwhelming vote, advancing Trump's agenda of intelligence community reform.

Speaking with Breitbart, Ratcliffe said the CIA faces a challenge reversing the damage of Brennan's "radicalism."

Because of Brennan's agenda, "The agency collected less intelligence, it was lower quality intelligence, and it was increasingly politicized in the analysis of that intelligence," Ratcliffe said.

"That carried on throughout his tenure and then even after his tenure as we just talked about the timing of the letter of the 51 spies who lied was really the capstone of a career of politicizing intelligence. President Trump wants that to stop."

Brennan whines about security clearance

Throughout Trump's first term, Brennan - who was no longer serving in government at the time - repeatedly claimed that Trump was in cahoots with Russia. An exhaustive, multi-year investigation by the FBI found no evidence to support the claim.

On the eve of the 2020 election, Brennan signed a letter along with 50 other former intelligence officials, claiming that Hunter Biden's emails had the appearance of Russian propaganda. Brennan and his co-signers never claimed to have any proof, but their perceived expertise provided a pretext to censor legitimate news reporting at the peak of a contentious presidential election.

President Trump revoked Brennan's security clearance this week, sending a clear message that he will not tolerate political meddling from the Deep State.

Brennan whined to MSNBC about his security clearance being revoked and accused Trump of misrepresenting what the Hunter Biden letter said.

“He misrepresented the facts in that executive order because it said that we had suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation,” Brennan complained.

“No, we said it was one of the hallmarks of Russian information operations, including the dumping of accurate information, which is what we said in that letter,” he added.