Biden Picks a Dirty-Money Sleuth for CIA Deputy Director

David Cohen is likely to emphasize using financial tools against America’s adversaries

Dec 04, 2020

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UPDATED FROM DECEMBER.

David S. Cohen, tapped to be deputy director to President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Bill Burns to run the CIA, used to enjoy being known as President Barack Obama’s “financial Batman.”

As Assistant Secretary, then Undersecretary, of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence from 2009 to 2015, Cohen reveled in plunging …

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