# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 7 March 2013 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | National |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | drone; drones |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | The New York Times |
| Title | Brennan Confirmed to Lead the C.I.A. |
| Dateline | — |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/politics/brennan-confirmed-to-lead-the-cia.html |
| Archive URL | https://web.archive.org/web/20130310074149/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/politics/brennan-confirmed-to-lead-the-cia.html |
| Dedup key | 2013-03-07|new-york-times|brennan-confirmed-cia-drone-filibuster |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** The Times reported the Senate on Thursday afternoon confirmed John O. Brennan as CIA director 63–34 after Sen. Rand Paul’s nearly 13-hour filibuster seeking more information on the administration’s domestic drone policy. After Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. wrote that the president does not have the “authority to use a drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil,” Paul called the effort a success, voted for cloture (81–16) but against the nomination. Democrats Patrick Leahy and Jeff Merkley and independent Bernard Sanders joined Republicans against confirmation; Marco Rubio and Ron Wyden voted to confirm. Brennan had served under Bush and Obama; Obama had considered him for CIA four years earlier but interrogation-program objections blocked it. Leahy wanted more drone-program documents; Merkley said an “inside player in both administrations” was “not the right person” to change the CIA. Obama praised the “bipartisan confirmation.”

**Kinematic object.** Domestic-drone legal authority as the filibuster object; CIA director who had overseen the strike programme

**Coverage frame.** regulatory / military

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original
- Wire reprint status: NYT original confirmation report. Live page 403; facts from Wayback snapshot of the same URL.
- What was excluded

- Snapshot prints “Published: March 7, 2013.”
- Extract limited to that snapshot; later NYT updates not used.

## LRRK relevance

Control Fabric / Campaign. Senate condition on domestic drone use against non-combatant Americans.

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