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As ISIS claims responsibility for its second devastating terror attack against the West in six months, a dispute is playing out in Washington over whether the CIA should be using armed drones to kill the group's leaders, NBC News has learned. President Obama has ordered that the military, not the CIA, use drones to track and kill high-value ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria, with the CIA using its own drones for intelligence gathering. But that arrangement has resulted in some missed opportunities to kill top ISIS operatives, U.S. officials tell NBC News. Now, the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee are secretly urging Obama to reconsider and allow CIA drones to be armed. The two senators, Republican Richard Burr of North Carolina and Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California, made the request in a classified letter to Obama, sent before the Brussels attacks.