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President-Elect Joe Biden Nominates La Salle Alumnus to Head the CIA
January 14, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 14 (TNSPer) -- La Salle University issued the following news release:

William J. Burns, '78, a career ambassador and retired foreign service officer, has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Burns, a native of the Philadelphia area, was a student in La Salle's Honors Program who graduated in 1978 with an undergraduate degree in history. As Biden's nomine . . .

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