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Undated: Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician and attorney who, since April 2018, has served as the 70th United States Secretary of State. He is a former United States Army officer and was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from January 2017 until April 2018. Pompeo was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, representing Kansas's 4th congressional district. He was a Kansas representative on the Republican National Committee and member of the Italian American Congressional Delegation. Pompeo is also a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party.[3]
President Donald Trump nominated Pompeo as Secretary of State in March 2018, with Pompeo succeeding Rex Tillerson after his dismissal.[4] Pompeo was confirmed by the Senate on April 26, 2018, in a 57–42 vote[5][6][7] and was sworn in the same day.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo
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November 18: Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s pick to be director of the CIA, is a hard-line Republican congressman who shares the president-elect’s pugnacious worldview and, like Trump, spent years as a businessman before becoming a politician.
Pompeo has heavily criticized the landmark Iran nuclear deal, blasted Hillary Clinton over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya and her use of a private email server, and believes Edward Snowden is a traitor who deserves a death sentence. He also supports restoring the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone metadata, a contentious terror-fighting tool Congress eliminated after Snowden’s revelations.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-taps-kansas-congressman-mike-pompeo-cia
November 18: New CIA Director Mike Pompeo on torture, Muslims, terror, Iran, NSA spying
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article115635853.html
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November 10: Is CIA Director Mike Pompeo more faithful to the president than to the facts?
Again and again, the former Kansas congressman has distinguished himself as a Trump loyalist by throwing himself between the facts and his boss.
But particularly now that he’s maneuvered himself into having the CIA unit that’s looking into possible collusion between Russia and Team Trump report directly to him, he needs to show a lot more fidelity to the process, and to all those public servants who work for him — and for us.
Last month, the director told an outright falsehood that favored the president. That happened after an NBC reporter noted that former director of National Intelligence James Clapper had said Russian meddling in our election last year “of course” cast doubt on “the legitimacy of [Trump’s] election.”
“Can you say with absolute certainty that the election results were not skewed?” the reporter asked Pompeo. That question is essentially unanswerable, since even voters themselves can’t always say what exact pieces of information (or disinformation) influenced their vote.
But Trump’s man at Langley did not let that stop him: “Yes,” he answered, “the intelligence community’s assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election.”
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article184003471.html
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March 15: Mike Pompeo, the Spymaster Who Couldn’t Stay in His Lane
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mike-pompeo-the-spymaster-who-couldnt-stay-in-his-lane
April 12: Mike Pompeo promises to be a 'talent hawk' for the State Department
The secretary of state confirmation process for Pompeo comes at a pivotal foreign policy moment, as the U.S. prepares a response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mike-pompeo-address-criticism-he-s-too-hawkish-secretary-state-n865271
April 26: Mike Pompeo: Trump's loyalist diplomat and ex-spymaster
Mike Pompeo was a hardline Republican congressman before President Donald Trump appointed him to direct the CIA and later to lead the US Department of State.
The former Tea Party representative from Kansas was handpicked by Mr Trump to be the top US diplomat after he fired former state department chief Rex Tillerson.
Hours before Mr Trump announced that he would meet the leader of North Korea, Mr Pompeo was seen in the Oval Office with Mr Trump during a meeting with a South Korean delegation at the White House.
In April it was revealed that Mr Pompeo had secretly travelled to Pyongyang over the Easter holiday to meet North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.
Mr Pompeo is seen as a Trump loyalist who performed a delicate balancing act at the CIA in managing frayed relations between the spy agency and a commander-in-chief who compared America's intelligence services to Nazis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38029336
October 19: Mike Pompeo’s Worldview? Do As Trump Does.
Pompeo has responded to the Khashoggi affair in lockstep with Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/pompeo-worldview-khashoggi-trump/573475/
November/December: [by Mike Pompeo] The end of the Cold War forced new thinking among policymakers and analysts about the greatest challenges to U.S. national security. The emergence of al Qaeda, cybercriminals, and other dangerous entities affirmed the threat of nonstate actors. But equally daunting has been the resurgence of outlaw regimes—rogue states that defy international norms, fail to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, and act against the security of the American people, U.S. allies and partners, and the rest of the world.
Chief among these outlaw regimes are North Korea and Iran.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2018-10-15/michael-pompeo-secretary-of-state-on-confronting-iran
December 4: Trump is building a new liberal world order, says Pompeo
US secretary of state praises president whose bonfire of treaties has alarmed Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/04/us-president-donald-trump-is-building-a-new-liberal-world-order-says-mike-pompeo
December 4:
US secretary of state attacks bureaucrats and multilateralism ‘as an end to itself.’
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January 7: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says oil prices don't influence US response to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing, contrary to Trump's stance
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/mike-pompeo-oil-prices-dont-influence-us-response-to-khashoggi-crisis.html
January 7: Trump's secretary of state Pompeo says Hezbollah is active in Venezuela
'The Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-crisis-hezbollah-mike-pompeo-trump-maduro-iran-juan-guaido-a8767186.html
January 10: 'The age of self-inflicted American shame is over,' Pompeo declares in rebuke of Obama's policy
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday held face to face meetings with Jordan's King Abdullah II amid confusion over conflicting Trump administration statements about a planned US troop withdrawal from Syria
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a blistering rebuke to former President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy Thursday and argued that the Trump administration has "reinvigorated" America’s leadership role in the region – even as President Donald Trump’s own statements and policies have sown confusion and chaos there.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/01/10/mike-pompeo-trump-has-rebuilt-middle-east-alliances-after-obama/2524433002/
January 10: In Cairo, Pompeo contradicted Trump and created more confusion
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/in-cairo-pompeo-contradicted-trump-and-created-more-confusion
January 10: Pompeo's Cairo Speech Is Met With Skepticism About Trump Policies
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/684100962/pompeos-cairo-speech-is-met-with-skepticism-about-trump-policies
January 11: Pompeo’s Speech vs. Trump’s View of the World
The secretary of state’s Cairo address projected a foreign policy at odds with the president’s instincts.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/11/pompeo-cairo-speech-trump-foreign-policy-middle-east-223913
January 12: Pompeo: Idea that Trump is national security threat ‘absolutely ludicrous’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pompeo-idea-that-trump-is-national-security-threat-absolutely-ludicrous
February 12: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denies Khashoggi cover-up and says action will be taken
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has promised further action over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, as he warned that Russia could drive a wedge between Western countries.
https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-denies-khashoggi-coverup-and-says-action-will-be-taken/news-story/72f7dfed796d460fa7cd633fa27d8e0b
January 13: Mike Pompeo Rips As ‘Absolutely Ludicrous’ NYT Story On Alleged FBI Inquiry Into Trump
In a “Face the Nation” interview, Pompeo refused to engage in discussion on the story, calling it “silly” and unworthy of a response.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pompeo-new-york-times_us_5c3abe9be4b01c93e00a6f0f
January 14: Pompeo: Trump threat to Turkey shows US commitment to Kurds
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2019/01/14/pompeo-trump-threat-to-turkey-shows-us-commitment-to-kurds/
January 21: Mike Pompeo Is Already Contemplating the Post-Trump Life
Republicans are trying to entice the Secretary of State to run for an open Senate seat in 2020, and he appears to be taking it seriously.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/mike-pompeo-kansas-senate-2020
January 23: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday praised a wave of “disruption” in world politics, citing Donald Trump and Brexit but also pointing to elections in France and Malaysia.
Addressing the world’s business elite in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, Pompeo renewed Trump’s criticism of international institutions and the U.S. president’s calls for “strong borders” to protect national sovereignty.
“New winds are blowing across the world,” Pompeo told the World Economic Forum, speaking by video after the his trip was scuttled by the ongoing U.S. government shutdown.
“I’d argue that this disruption is a positive development,” he said.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/davos-address-mike-pompeo-hails-disruption-global-politics-evidenced-trump-election-brexit/#.XGT54RIiLow
February 13: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reportedly issued a stern warning to his Russian counterpart that America will "hold Russia accountable" for its role in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
Citing a statement from deputy State Department spokesman Robert Palladino, The Hill reported Pompeo told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov there would be penalties imposed as required by the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act.
... Russia's official statement of the conversation between the two diplomats, however, warned further sanctions would increase tensions between the two countries.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mike-pompeo-sergei-skripal-poisoning-chemical-weapons/2019/02/13/id/902578/
February 13: Russia has 'grand designs' on European domination, Mike Pompeo says
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-14/mike-pompeo-says-russia-has-grand-designs-of-european-domination/10810066
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