Sources say Morell is a leading candidate to be Biden’s CIA director. But his defenses of the agency’s torture and drone strikes are already drawing progressive opposition.
President-elect Joe Biden is strongly considering Mike Morell, the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to run the CIA, according to four individuals familiar with the matter. But those familiar with the process say that other candidates are still in the mix for the position of the nation’s top spy chief.
Morell served as deputy CIA director for three years under President Barack Obama and also worked as acting director of the agency twice. According to three of the four sources familiar with the matter, the president-elect was considering both Morell and Avril Haines, another former deputy CIA director, for the position. But in an announcement Monday afternoon, Biden picked Haines, the former deputy director for the CIA and deputy national security adviser under Obama, to become director of national intelligence.
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WNU Editor: One Democrat Senator is saying no to Mike Morell .... Key Democrat warns Biden not to nominate Mike Morell as CIA director (CNN). But there are others on the list. Bottom line. It looks like CIA Director Haspel's days are numbered.
