WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, moved one step closer to becoming CIA director yesterday when a Senate panel OK’d his nomination.
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 12-3 to approve Brennan, whose nomination will now go to the full Senate.
“This is an agency that needs oversight, supervision and direction,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the committee.
The vote came after the White House gave legal opinions from the Justice Department to try to appease concerns of panel members over using drone strikes to kill Americans overseas who are involved in terrorism.