Obama Nominates Mastermind Of Controversial Drone Strike Program As Next CIA Director -- Daily Mail
* John Brennan is behind programme that has carried out over 300 remote strikes against terrorist targets, killing some 2,500 people
* Drawn fire from Democrats for connection to 'torture' techniques such as waterboarding under Bush administration
* Also criticised for wrongly stating bin Laden was armed and had used his wife as a human shield in a briefing following the historic SEAL Team Six raid
* Nominated after David Petraeus quit following revelations of his clandestine affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell
The man who has masterminded the expansion of a drone programme that has carried out more than 300 remote strikes against terrorist targets, killing some 2,500 people, is to be nominated as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
John Brennan, 57, the current head of counter-terrorism, has also provoked ire on the Left because of his connection during the Bush administration, when he was a senior CIA officer, to 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' such as water-boarding, which many regard as torture.
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