WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate backed veteran diplomat William Burns on Thursday to become President Joe Biden’s Central Intelligence Agency director.
The Senate voted by unanimous consent, without objection, to approve Burns, a former ambassador to Russia and former deputy secretary of state, to lead the agency.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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