The veteran diplomat, William Joseph Burns, has several years of experience in the state department and is known for his deep understanding of foreign affairs
Biden taps William Burns to head Central Intelligence Agency
President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday that he had selected longtime US State Department official William Burns to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Burns was a 33-year veteran of the US diplomatic corps, rising to Deputy Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014 in the Obama administration. He retired in 2014 to head the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a major foreign policy think tank in Washington.
As a top-level State Department official through the administrations of Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama, Burns is implicated in virtually every crime of US imperialism over the past three decades, including the war in Iraq, the US-NATO attack on Libya, the military coup that drowned the Egyptian Revolution in blood, and the US intervention in Syria.
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - President-elect Biden nominated former U.S. Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns as the new CIA Director.64-year-old Burns, who retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in
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