Washington (CNN) Facing criticism over his scant intelligence community experience, President Donald Trump's nominee to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence -- Texas Rep John Ratcliffe -- has touted his experience as a federal prosecutor working on terrorism cases as a qualification to become the nation's spy chief, but there appears to be little evidence to back up that claim.

"As a US Attorney and federal terrorism prosecutor, Ratcliffe put terrorists in prison," his congressional website says.

But when asked Ratcliffe's office didn't provide names of any terrorism suspects sent to prison as a result of his prosecutorial work.

"Department of Justice records will confirm that as both Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security for the Eastern District of Texas from 2004-2008, John Ratcliffe opened, managed and supervised numerous domestic and international terrorism related cases," a spokeswoman for Ratcliffe said.

CNN's initial search of court records did not find any terrorism cases he was listed as prosecuting.

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