Posted on 06/18/2020 6:53:31 AM PDT by bitt
A leading Democratic lawmaker asked the CIA for answers on an undisclosed advisory board Secretary of State Mike Pompeo organized during his time as head of the spy agency.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, the head of the oversight panel's national security subcommittee, expressed concern that the activities of the board may have been inappropriate and that its members were more likely to be wealthy, influential individuals.
"To date, the CIA has refused to identify the individuals selected by Mr. Pompeo to serve on the External Advisory Board during his tenure, as well as the role of his wife, Susan Pompeo, a private citizen, in organizing these events,” the Massachusetts Democrat wrote in the letter. “It is imperative that the CIA remains independent of undue influence from partisan political interests."
The concern is that Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from Kansas who served as CIA director from January 2017 to April 2018, may have been using the board to curry favor with influential businessmen and politicians.
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That is pretty sick if you mean that as something to admire, to say the CIA operates independently of the US Government. That is depraved and un-American.
And no, seal team six does not operate independent of the US Government.
GEEZ-US, now they are going to start on Pompeo.
This SOS would not do anything that is not All American.
Whatever he does, you can be sure it is OK.
But the weirdos in the House have to have something to complain, whine, and conspire about.
It’s more sickening that all the virus articles.
That we know of
Ever hear of black army
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