John O. Brennan

John Owen Brennan is an American government official who is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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He has served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama; his title was Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President.

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His responsibilities included overseeing plans to protect the country from terrorism and respond to natural disasters, and he met with the President daily.

Previously, he advised President Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues during the 2008 presidential campaign and transition.

Brennan withdrew his name from consideration for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the first Obama administration over concerns about his support for transferring terror suspects to countries where they may be tortured while serving under President George W. Bush.

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Instead, Brennan was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor, a position which did not require Senate confirmation.

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Brennan's 25 years with the CIA included work as a Near East and South Asia analyst, as station chief in Saudi Arabia, and as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

The National Counterterrorism Center is a United States government organization responsible for national and international counterterrorism efforts.

After leaving government service in 2005, Brennan became CEO of The Analysis Corporation, a security consulting business, and served as chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, an association of intelligence professionals.

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The Analysis Corporation was the Intelligence Solutions business of Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc., now renamed Sotera Defense Solutions, a defense contracting company.

President Barack Obama nominated Brennan as his next director of the CIA on January 7, 2013.

The ACLU called for the Senate not to proceed with the appointment until it confirms that "all of his conduct was within the law" at the CIA and White House.

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John Brennan was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 5, 2013 to succeed David Petraeus as the Director of the CIA by a vote of 12 to 3.

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His term as CIA Director coincided with revelations that the U.S. government conducted massive levels of global surveillance, that the CIA had hacked into the computers of U.S. Senate employees, and the release of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture.

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