Opinion | The critical work of CIA Director William Burns WashTimesOpEd
The Biden administration might reveal Mr.
‘ travel destinations, but it has taken great pains to conceal the substance of his meetings, hoping to preserve a vitally important covert communications channel.director’s first priority when he travels overseas is to engage the deployed agency officers and their families, to walk the ground with them, appreciate their challenges, and share ideas about how to make their mission more effective.
But the director also reports to the president in a clandestine channel immune from public scrutiny. He enjoys a high degree of trust and reliability with foreign allies and adversaries alike.‘ important national security role by elevating him recently to a full position in the Cabinet, underscoring the critical importance of the work he and the agency do.
There are always areas of mutual concern — counterterrorism and weapons proliferation chief among them — on which we need to engage our adversaries. And even our closest allies appreciate the opportunity to have a senior-level conversation walled off from public scrutiny, especially when it is with the first career diplomat ever to lead the
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