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CIA Director Leon Panetta named John D. Bennett the next chief of the National Clandestine Service, the operations side of the agency. Bennett, a retired Marine and four-time agency station chief who returned in 2007 CIA after a brief retirement, previously headed the Special Activities Division. That’s the CIA’s paramilitary wing.
While that division doesn’t oversee the drone strikes, it is — and Bennett was — involved with them in ways we haven’t yet been able to precisely learn, according to our sources. (This AP story claims that Bennett actually directed the drones while in Pakistan during the Bush administration.) Panetta put it this way in a statement: “He has been at the forefront of the fight against al-Qa’ida and its violent allies.”
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