Will be reading responses from those MUCH more knowledgeable than me in refuting this.
Was that a clever side step to avoid the click bait article?
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In any event, it is not clear the author answered his own question, so there is not much to refute. Rather it is clear he used the question merely to provide the background for a hit piece.
E.g., Trump...has filled his administration with the same swamp creatures he promised to drain.
We know much less about the woman and her current status as far as doing her job to help Pompeo support Trump than they do...and the word "adviser" has it's own implications - it's a subordinate role to the one asking the questions.....perhaps they want someone who will be really stringent to avid pitfalls....