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Joe Biden Chooses Familiar Faces for Top FEMA, CIA Roles

(Photo : Alex Wong/Getty Images) U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during day two of laying out his plan on combating the coronavirus at the Queen theater January 15, 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware.
President-elect Joe Biden announced his nominations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), bringing back familiar faces.
Joe Biden nominated New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell as the FEMA administrator and former CIA deputy director David Cohen to come back for the same role.
Joe Biden s FEMA and CIA picks come with more nominations confirmed by his team to The Associated Press. And it appears the incoming administration is putting a premium on experienced public servants. ....

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Biden nominates familiar faces for top roles at FEMA and the CIA

Joe Biden nominated Deanne Criswell to serve as the FEMA administrator and has tapped David Cohen to return to the CIA in the same role he served during the Obama administration ....

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Biden to nominate New York City's Emergency Management Department Commissioner Deanne Criswell for FEMA administrator

Eyewitness News profiled Criswell after she was named to that post.
In her earlier work at FEMA, Criswell served as the leader of one of the agency s National Incident Management Assistance Teams and as a federal coordinating officer. In New York, part of her duties included leading the coordination of the city s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Between her stints at FEMA and in New York, Criswell was a principal at Cadmus Group, a firm that provides homeland security management consulting and training services for federal, state and local government agencies and private sector companies. The company made about $68 million between the time she joined the firm in 2017 and when she left in June 2019, according to a tabulation of contract spending data from the site USASpending.gov. ....

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Biden picks up familiar faces for top roles at CIA, FEMA

US President-elect nominates ex-CIA deputy director David Cohen and Deanne Criswell for key roles in government. ....

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Joe Biden picks Deanne Criswell for FEMA, David Cohen for CIA deputy director

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator and has tapped former CIA deputy director David Cohen to return to the agency in the same role he served during the Obama administration. ....

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