I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

The Senate was set to vote on Brennan's nomination on March 6 2013. On March 5 the Intelligence Committee approved the nomination 12-3. President Obama nominated Brennan as his next director of the Central Intelligence Agency January 7 2013.

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