User:Geo Swan/Joe Biden's choices for DCI

On 2020-12-17 Spencer Ackerman wrote about who he thought Joe Biden was most likely to choose for DCI :
 * 1) David S. Cohen (attorney) - top candidate
 * 2) Tom Donilon - worked for Obama, has indicated he is not interested
 * 3) Susan M. Gordon - "former principal deputy director of national intelligence who quit the Trump administration in 2019"
 * 4) Vincent Stewart - "former Defense Intelligence Agency director and retired Marine three-star general"
 * 5) * Biden's actual choice
 * 6) Darrell Blocker - "a long shot, a retired agency veteran with experience in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center."
 * 7) Michael Morell - "The former acting CIA director and deputy director’s chances cratered..." because he was an "apologist for torture"
 * 8) Senator Ron Wyden called Morell  an "apologist for torture"
 * 9) Avril Haines - Biden choice for Director of National Intelligence
 * 10) Antony Blinken - Biden choice for Secretary of State
 * 11) Joe diGenova - a lawyer who Cohen publicly criticized