director leon panetta. obama gave him plenty of latitude. when panetta wanted to dramatically expand the cia's fleet of drones in pakistan, the president, over the objections of his staff, told panetta the cia gets what it wants. >> it was a u.s. drone that fired -- >> u.s. drone strike killed -- >> believed to have taken out -- >> al qaeda's second in command has been killed by a u.s. drone strike. >> drones got the job done. >> reported drone strike. >> it's a major blow. >> al qaeda's senior leadership was decimated. >> the joke became that they once again killed the number three guy in al qaeda. >> president obama had become the dronprident. >> very controversial drone program. >> -- has been killed. >> killed. >> killed in a drone attack. >> have you opened a pandora's box? people will use your precedent and say the americans under obama did it so we're going to use drones.