Biden Picks Longtime Diplomat William Burns to Lead CIA
Noam Galai/Getty Images for National Committee on American Foreign Policy
We ran the numbers: There are 2327 news articles covering this topic. 33% (764) are left leaning, 44% (1030) are center, and 23% (533) are right leaning.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate William Burns, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Jordan, to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. While left-leaning articles highlight that Burns would inherit an agency that has spent four years defending against President Trump, right-leaning articles highlight that Burns previously had a 33-year old career in the U.S. Foreign Service.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that Burns would inherit an agency that has spent four years defending against President Trump, who has accused former CIA leaders of engaging in a conspiracy to derail his 2016 presidential campaign. Although Burns has never worked in an intelligence agency, his career has placed him in positions that regularly interact with the intelligence community.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that Burns worked under Democratic and Republican presidents and was deputy secretary of state during the Obama years. He left the State Department in 2014 to run the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank. Burns is replacing Gina Haspel, the current CIA chief who rose from deputy director to the top job in 2018.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that Burns previously had a 33-year-old career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Burns also has master’s and doctoral degrees in international relations from Oxford University.
From the left
Biden taps William J. Burns, longtime diplomat, as next CIA director
The Washington Post