Chairman Roberts Schedules Confirmation Hearings on the Nomination of General
Hayden
to be Director, CIA
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, today announced the schedule for confirmation
hearings on the nomination of General Michael Hayden to be the Director of
the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Committee will hold an open hearing on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 9:30
am EST followed by a closed full Committee hearing. The room is to be
determined.
Chairman Roberts said, “The nation needs leadership in the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Committee has a responsibility to move quickly
on this important nomination.”
“General Hayden is well known to the Intelligence Committee,” Roberts
said. “He has appeared multiple times before the Committee during his six
years as the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and has been
confirmed by the Senate as both the Director of NSA and as the Principle
Deputy Director of National Intelligence.”
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