FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2013 file photo, CIA Director nominee John Brennan, testifies before a Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate’s approval of Brennan to be CIA director puts in place a third key member of President Barack Obama’s national security team. Brennan won Senate confirmation on Thursday, March 7 after the administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination and explicitly stated there are limits on the president's power to use drones against U.S. terror suspects on American soil. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2013 file photo, CIA Director nominee John Brennan, testifies before a Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate’s approval of Brennan to be CIA director puts in place a third key member of President Barack Obama’s national security team. Brennan won Senate confirmation on Thursday, March 7 after the administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination and explicitly stated there are limits on the president's power to use drones against U.S. terror suspects on American soil. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., leaves the floor of the Senate after his filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Thursday, March 7, 2013. Senate Democrats pushed Wednesday for speedy confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director but ran into a snag after Paul began a lengthy speech over the legality of potential drone strikes on U.S. soil. But Paul stalled the chamber to start what he called a filibuster of Brennan's nomination. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to a waiting vehicle as he leaves the Capitol after his filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Thursday, March 7, 2013. Senate Democrats pushed Wednesday for speedy confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director but ran into a snag after Paul began a lengthy speech over the legality of potential drone strikes on U.S. soil. But Paul stalled the chamber to start what he called a filibuster of Brennan's nomination. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Brennan sworn in as CIA chief
WASHINGTON (
AP) —
John Brennan has been sworn in as the director of the CIA, becoming the third key member of President
Barack Obama's new national security team.
The White House says Vice President Joe Biden swore Brennan in during a private ceremony in the Roosevelt Room.
Brennan had been Obama's top counterterrorism adviser in the White House. He won confirmation Thursday after a contentious Senate debate on the use of armed drones against terrorism suspects.
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