(MCT) WASHINGTON — The Senate intelligence committee approved John Brennan as the next CIA director, ending weeks of tense delay and setting the stage for the full Senate to vote on President Barack Obama’s last major pick for his national security Cabinet.

The committee voted 12 to 3 in a closed-door hearing Tuesday, hours after the White House agreed to give the House and Senate intelligence committees secret Justice Department opinions on the targeted killing of American terror suspects overseas, and records from the terrorist attacks at U.S. diplomatic and intelligence compounds in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11.