Progressives Voice their Opposition To President-Elect Joe Biden's Choice Of Avril Haines For Director Of National Intelligence

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) nominee Avril Haines. 

John Kiriakou, Consortium News: The Dark Past of Biden’s Nominee for National Intelligence Director 

There were three controversial areas where Avril Haines made a name for herself and for which she should have to answer in a confirmation hearing. 

Former acting CIA Director Mike Morell, who has disingenuously argued for years that he had nothing to do with the agency’s torture program, but who continued to defend it, has taken himself out of the running to be President-elect Joe Biden’s new CIA director. 

The decision is a victory for the peace group Code Pink, which spearheaded the Stop Morell movement, and it’s a great thing for all Americans. Now, though, we have to turn our attention to Biden’s nominee to be director of national intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines. 

Haines is certainly qualified on paper to lead the Intelligence Community. A longtime Biden aide, she has the president-elect’s confidence. But that’s not good enough. Haines is exactly the kind of person who shouldn’t be in a position of authority in intelligence. She is the kind of neoliberal intelligence apologist whom so many of us have opposed for so many years. Don’t just take my word for it, though. Look at her record. 

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WNU Editor: I do not see this nomination being overturned.

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