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Jessica Chastain earned an Oscar nomination for best actress for her portrayal of a young, obsessed CIA operative driving the search for Osama bin Laden in Columbia Pictures' new thriller "Zero Dark Thirty." (Columbia Pictures)

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Jessica Chastain earned an Oscar nomination for best actress for her portrayal of a young, obsessed CIA operative driving the search for Osama bin Laden in Columbia Pictures' new thriller "Zero Dark Thirty." (Columbia Pictures)

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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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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 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)

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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)

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David H. Petraeus resigned as CIA director over an extramarital affair. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Khalid al-Masri, a German who says CIA agents abducted him and transported him to Afghanistan, attends a meeting of the European Parliament committee investigating claims of U.S. secret prisons and flights in Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in 2006. (AP Photo/Christian Hartmann)

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** FILE ** Khalid al-Masri, a German who says CIA agents abducted him and transported him to Afghanistan, attends a meeting of the European Parliament committee investigating claims of U.S. secret prisons and flights in Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in 2006. (AP Photo/Christian Hartmann)

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A Capitol Hill Police officer stands guard as former CIA Director David H. Petraeus allegedly meets with lawmakers behind closed doors inside the Capitol Visitors Center on Capitol Hill on Washington on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Jill Kelley’s complaint about receiving harassing emails spurred an FBI investigation that eventually ensnared ex-CIA Director David N. Petraeus and Marine Gen. John Allen. (Associated Press)

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Jill Kelley's complaint about receiving harassing emails spurred an FBI investigation that eventually ensnared ex-CIA Director David N. Petraeus and Marine Gen. John Allen. (Associated Press)

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified. (Associated Press)

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A Capitol Hill police officer stops people from entering a hallway on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov, 16, 2012, near where the Senate Intelligence Committee was holding a closed-door hearing where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)