Posted on 11/18/2016 8:56:23 PM PST by Innovative
Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Republican congressman from Kansas, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, according to the Associated Press. Pompeo, 52, has served in the House of Representatives since 2011.
Pompeo graduated first in his class from West Point in 1986, according to his congressional biography. He spent five years on active duty in the Army — part of it along the East German border — serving as a tank platoon leader. He left the Army as a captain, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Pompeo, who was born in California, moved to Kansas in 1996 after graduating from Harvard Law School and working in Washington, D.C., as an attorney for two years. In Kansas, Pompeo went into business, starting Thayer Aerospace, where he served as CEO. After selling the company in 2006, he became president of a company called Sentry International, which makes equipment for oilfields.
Pompeo is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA). The committee investigated the 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, and, according to the New York Times, “found no new evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama administration” or then-Secretary of State Clinton.
However, Pompeo was convinced there was a cover-up and wrote a 48-page report highly critical of Clinton. According to the Times, Pompeo’s report, which he wrote with another Republican committee member, said the State Department was “seemingly more concerned with politics and Secretary Clinton’s legacy than with protecting its people in Benghazi.”
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Clinton should be worried. Great choice!
Ha! Great person to have as Director of the CIA.
I think some NSA activities are unconstitutional, and if the military is doing something that involves national defense, the exclusionary rule should apply in all other cases with respect to any evidence which appears.
I'll always be against slippery slopes such as all this "meta-data" gathering that is done without strict and formal due process.
Sorry. "No sale" on that Tyrannical crap, and I hope that President Trump doesn't fall into that enticing snare with respect to snooping on citizens and inventorying and rummaging through their "papers and effects", their every movement, who they communicate with etc.
All that garbage is just wrong in any era, and such tactics threaten to render the Individual powerless against the State...
I have to click a link to Cosmo to read it? Can’t I catch an STD doing that?
We can thank Edward Snowden for revealing the extent of illegal domestic spying on Americans.
Unfortunately, he's not likely to come back to this country as long as we have politicians of both parties wishing he were dead, as an example to others of the same mind.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/18/obama-refuses-edward-snowdens-plea-presidential-pa/
New boss same as the old boss but tougher?
I can't wait to learn of Trump's other cabinet choices. /sarc
Who got your vote for President? Because unless you wrote in Bernie Sanders, you yourself chose to go down the ‘slippery slope’ that you are ‘always against’.
Yes! I love these appointments!
You don’t need to go much further than “first in his class at West Point”. That’s the best of the best right there.
Nonsense. Donald Trump as President shouldn't present too many "slippery slopes", and he should hear from us if he wanders off the straight and narrow.
Don't forget, President-elect Trump is not an ideological conservative, so the People need to help him maintain a moral compass in which Liberty is ascendant. I think it's possible that his pragmatic tendencies might cause him drift from time to time.
In any event, I believe that part of this process is one whereby we occasionally hold the President's feet to the fire, in a fair way, when it's appropriate to do so...
Donald is Mr. Real Good, not Mr. Perfecto.
If people thought, even now, that just throwing Donald over the transom to Washington was all that was needed — this is another piece of evidence that it isn’t. (His faint damnation of LGBT is another piece.)
We must pray to God that the wisdom from Him which was contained in the Constitution will be honored yet.
And yet, with respect to cyber privacy. It’s very, very hard to keep anything private without being kept under layers of purposed security. The idea that a quasi-open environment like your average Windows or even Linux will be hackproof, is naive. If China can get it, so can the NSA (even if it takes NSA asking China for it).
But, I do have a hunch that this is going to mostly apply in genuine national security cases, like Islamoterrorism has become due to its gaining boldness in the face of appeasement and coddling. It never had to get that way, but that horse is now out of the barn. Now we got to deal with it.
Other issues which engender national debate (and misrepresentations) like prohibitions, need their own treatment. Drug bans may be a crutch, but with the way our society has gotten, they might be the only factor keeping America from falling into a hole. A more responsible — more God conscious, ultimately — society will be needed before we can regain the laissez-faire attitudes that carried the (peaceful parts of the) 19th century.
Post/thread BUMP!
Why is my comment nonsense? You previously said that you will always be against the slippery slopes such as the metadata gathering. Donald Trump is in favor of the metadata gathering. So consequently, doesn’t that put you on the slippery slope that you just derided if you voted for him?
Cosmopolitan talks politics?
I guess this article is between the monthly sex quiz and the “how to love your man” article of the month.
Between session and pompeo we can nail this biotch her husband and many others involved
Eddy Snowjob’s revelation of the “ extent of illegal domestic spying” was public knowledge back in the 70s. It’s called: short attention span.
Eddy’s real contribution was to reveal method and means of Intel collection first to the Chinese and later to the Russians. If you think what HRC revealed in her email was horrendous and traitorous, what Eddy revealed was everything else to America’s enemies, that is: how the info HRC revealed was collected, by whom, and where - complete with program and personnel names.
Definitely a real hero ... to the Chinese and Russians, and possibly AQ and ISIS.
Clean up the FBI/CIA/DOJ, starting at the top and they might actually become relevant again....
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