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White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

**FILE** Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan (right) and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley accompany President Obama at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on May 5, 2011, en route to New York City to visit ground zero and meet with first responders and family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden, with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), speaks during a meeting with victims groups and gun-safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) greets acting CIA Director Michael J. Morell after attending a news conference at the White House on Monday, at which President Obama announced that he is nominating his deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism and John O. Brennan (left) as the CIA chief. (Associated Press)

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President Obama and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (left), the president's choice for Defense Secretary, listen as White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, the president's choice for CIA director, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 7, 2013, where the president made the announcement. (Associated Press)

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President Obama (center) announces in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, that he is nominating John Brennan (right), his deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, as the new director of the CIA, and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (left) as the new defense secretary. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)