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A key senator has dropped her concerns about Leon Panetta becoming director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Just two days after she criticized President-elect Barack Obama's apparent pick to head the agency because Panetta is not an intelligence professional, incoming Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said she will support Panetta because he will "tell truth to power."

In an interview with CNN, Feinstein said she believes Panetta, a former congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff, will "surround himself with very qualified intelligence professionals in the top positions." Read full article »

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