WASHINGTON – The Latest on Senate confirmation hearings for President-elect Joe Biden’s nominees for his administration (all times local):6 a.m.President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for national intelligence director is planning to tell Senate lawmakers that intelligence and national security issues will not be politicized under her watch.Avril Haines faces a confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate intelligence committee.Haines will also tell lawmakers that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence must not shy away from “speaking truth to power” even if inconvenient or difficult.
That’s according to excerpts of her prepared remarks released ahead of the hearing.Haines served in the Obama administration as deputy director of the.