WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Thursday approved John Brennan as the next head of President Obama administration’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by a vote of 63 to 34.
Brennan is a CIA veteran and has been a main architect of the Obama administration’s drone strategy in pursuit of al-Qaeda-linked militants operating on foreign soils.
“With the bipartisan confirmation of John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Senate has recognised in John the qualities I value so much,” President Barack Obama said in a statement.
“With John’s 25 years of experience at the Agency, our extraordinary men and women of the CIA will be led by one of their own,” he added.
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