100 Votes for Panetta
Leading the effort to find and kill Osama bin Laden paid off for CIA Director Leon Panetta as the Boston Globe notes he was unanimously confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense in a 100-0 vote by the U.S. Senate.
Panetta will replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is retiring June 30 after 4 1/2 years on the job during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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