The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has postponed a vote on the nomination of White House terrorism adviser John O. Brennan to be CIA director after seeing emails that showed his role in drafting controversial "talking points" about the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya last year.
Congressional officials told The Washington Times that committee Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein had planned to hold a vote as soon as Thursday.
But the California Democrat said this week that there would be no vote on the nomination before March 7.
"The situation is fluid," said Mrs. Feinstein's spokesman, Brian Weiss, adding that no date had been set for a vote.
White House officials told The Times on Wednesday that the emails provided to committee members, which will be shared this week with members of the House intelligence committee, show that Mr. Brennan played a minor role in drafting the talking points and none at all in making the changes that have so infuriated Republicans.
Mr. Brennan "suggested two minor edits that were stylistic," White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said. "Neither edit made its way into the CIA's final product."
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