There's not a single piece of information in the article, other than the opinions of people who have no personal knowledge of any of the discussion other than what they read in the news.

DNI Ratcliffe is speaking for the entire IC. Like him or not, he's not an idiot, and to claim he has no previous experience when he sat on the house intelligence committee and was a prosecutor with significant experience in national security is a bit silly.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/director...