FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has created a working group to prepare for the landmark meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea. But Mr. Trump’s sudden ousting on Tuesday of Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson could delay critical elements of the planning until the Senate confirms his […]
Category: Mike Pompeo
3/13/2018
CIA/FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE POMPEO/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s plan to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to succeed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state positions a crucial Trump ally as the administration’s top diplomat, one who the president said is more in line with his foreign-policy vision. Mr. Pompeo is among the few outsiders to have […]
3/13/2018
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/NOMINATIONS/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. […]
1/31/2018
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/RUSSIA: “CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently met with his Russian counterparts when they traveled to the US, according to US ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman. Russian media is reporting those who met with Pompeo may have included the country’s sanctioned spy chief, Sergey Naryshkin. Talks between top US and Russian intelligence officials occurred just […]
1/7/2018
CIA/MENTAL HEALTH/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “CIA Director Mike Pompeo defended President Donald Trump’s mental abilities in the wake of a book claiming Trump does not read or properly process information presented to him. ‘Those statements are just absurd,’ Pompeo said on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ When he delivers information to Trump almost daily, the President engages […]
11/30/2017
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/REX TILLERSON/STATE: “For all his political and bureaucratic stumbles, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has been a steady voice of moderation in how the Trump administration engages with the world. That voice will be lost if, as expected, President Trump replaces Mr. Tillerson at the State Department with Mike Pompeo, a hard-line former […]
11/30/2017
MIKE POMPEO/NOMINATIONS/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained, and replace him with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, perhaps within the next several weeks, senior administration officials said on Thursday [11-30-17]. Mr. Pompeo would be […]
11/15/2017
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has turned his daily intelligence briefing — a routine that in previous administrations has been a dry, formal affair — into a free-flowing conversation during which he peppers his CIA director, former House member Mike Pompeo, with questions about everything from national security threats to the internal dynamics […]
10/19/2017
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/MIKE POMPEO/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA: “CIA Director Mike Pompeo drew sharp criticism Thursday [10-19-17] after wrongly stating that the U.S. intelligence community had found that Russian meddling did not tilt the 2016 presidential election. Pompeo made the inaccurate claim at an event hosted by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a conservative think tank close to […]
8/2/2017
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The end came quickly for one of the costliest covert action programs in the history of the C.I.A. During a White House briefing early last month, the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, recommended to President Trump that he shut down a four-year-old effort to arm and train Syrian rebels. The president swiftly […]
7/21/2017
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday [7-21-17] evening offered some of the most aggressive comments yet from the Trump administration with regard to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Although Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has in the past said the US was against forcing Kim out of power or the […]
04/13/2017
CIA/POLITICS/MIKE POMPEO: “Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, slammed WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in a full-throated public denunciation Thursday before an audience for foreign policy specialists in Washington, D.C. ‘WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service,’ he said in prepared remarks at the Center […]