[quote]Washington (CNN)The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, on Monday night.
The vote was 66-32 in favor of confirmation, with Pompeo picking up some Democratic backing. The only Republican in opposition was Sen. Rand Paul. [/quote]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/mike-pompeo-cia-director-confirmation-vote/index.html[/url]
It will be interesting to see how this taken by the supposedly already "angry" intel community.
How many puppies did this man drown?
It turns out he didn't drown puppies, but he is interested in altering the Army handbook to allow waterboarding of puppies deemed enemy combatants, as well as collecting metadata on American puppies' everyday lives.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;51717462]How many puppies did this man drown?
It turns out he didn't drown puppies, but he is interested in altering the Army handbook to allow waterboarding of puppies deemed enemy combatants, as well as collecting metadata on American puppies' everyday lives.[/QUOTE]
Must be a cat person.
Here's some information on Pompeo
[quote]
"In a 2013 speech on the House floor, Pompeo said Muslim leaders who fail to denounce acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam are "potentially complicit" in the attacks.[50] The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Pompeo to revise his remarks, calling them "false and irresponsible".[51]"
"Pompeo opposes closing Guantánamo Bay detention camp.[52] After a 2013 visit to the prison, Pompeo said, of the prisoners who were on hunger strike, "It looked to me like a lot of them had put on weight."[53]
Pompeo has criticized the Obama administration's decision to end the CIA's secret prisons (so-called "black sites"), and the administration's requirement that all interrogators adhere to anti-torture laws.[54]
Pompeo supports the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, characterizing the agency's efforts as "good and important work."[42] In March 2014, Pompeo denounced NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's inclusion in the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, and called for Snowden's invitation to speak via telecast at the annual Texas event be withdrawn, lest it encourage "lawless behavior" among attendees.[43] In February 2016, Pompeo said Snowden "should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence."[44] But he has spoken in favor of reforming the Federal Records Act, one of the laws under which Snowden was charged, saying it "clearly needs updating to reflect the different ways information is communicated and stored."[45]
Pompeo has advocated for rolling back post-Snowden surveillance reforms, saying "Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database. Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed. That includes Presidential Policy Directive-28, which bestows privacy rights on foreigners and imposes burdensome requirements to justify data collection."[46][/quote]
Yikes. Looks like the US is going to be torturing again
[QUOTE=Samiam22;51717691]Here's some information on Pompeo
Yikes. Looks like the US is going to be torturing again[/QUOTE]
Gotta love how Trump can't trust the CIA because they do the sort of seedy things he wants them to do.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;51717691]Here's some information on Pompeo
Yikes. Looks like the US is going to be torturing again[/QUOTE]
Wow, why do these guys always seem like they would be right at home in fictional evil empires.
Come on, tell me that this dude and Darth Vader wouldn't get on.
More fun facts!
[quote]As a congressional candidate in 2010, Pompeo had to personally apologise for a tweet his campaign sent out promoting an article that called his opponent Raj Goyle, an Indian-American Democrat, a “turban topper” who “could be a muslim, a hindy, a buddhist etc who knows”. His campaign also put up billboard ads encouraging people in the area to “vote American”.[/quote]
[quote]Pompeo is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, which endorsed him for Congress. He is also a hardliner on abortion, keen to ban it in all instances except where the mother’s life is at risk. He has also voted against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act.[/quote]
[quote]Before joining Congress, Pompeo ran an oilfield supply and distribution company and has been a stalwart critic of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate carbon emissions.[/quote]
Aren't these fun?
Source: [url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/17/sessions-flynn-and-pompeo-who-are-the-potential-trump-cabinet-picks-[/url]
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;51717837]More fun facts!
Aren't these fun?
Source: [url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/17/sessions-flynn-and-pompeo-who-are-the-potential-trump-cabinet-picks-[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote] keen to ban it in all instances except where the mother’s life is at risk[/quote]
That's better than most anti-abortion people.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;51717854]That's better than most anti-abortion people.[/QUOTE]
No, that's a pretty standard republican viewpoint.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;51717854]That's better than most anti-abortion people.[/QUOTE]
except for the most incredibly hardline republicans out there, the general conservative opinion is that abortion is allowable for cases of rape and when the mother's life is at risk
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