| Mike Pompeo |
 |
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United States Secretary of State
Nominee |
Taking office
March 31, 2018 |
| President |
Donald Trump |
| Deputy |
John Sullivan |
| Succeeding |
Rex Tillerson |
| 6th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
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|
Assumed office
January 23, 2017 |
| President |
Donald Trump |
| Deputy |
Gina Haspel |
| Preceded by |
John O. Brennan |
| Succeeded by |
Gina Haspel (nominee) |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 4th district |
In office
January 3, 2011 – January 23, 2017 |
| Preceded by |
Todd Tiahrt |
| Succeeded by |
Ron Estes |
| Personal details |
| Born |
Michael Richard Pompeo
December 30, 1963 (age 54)
Orange, California, U.S. |
| Political party |
Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
Susan Pompeo |
| Children |
1 |
| Education |
United States Military Academy(BS)
Harvard University (JD) |
| Net worth |
$345,000[1] |
| Military service |
| Allegiance |
 United States |
| Service/branch |
 United States Army |
| Years of service |
1986–1991[2] |
| Rank |
 Captain[2][3] |
| Unit |
2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division |
| Battles/wars |
Gulf War |
| *Pending Senate confirmation |
Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician and businessman. He is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and has been since January 23, 2017, following his nomination by President Donald Trump. Previously, he was the member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 4th congressional district (2011–17). He was a member of the Tea Party movement within theRepublican Party.[4] He was a Kansas representative on the Republican National Committee and member of the Italian American Congressional Delegation.
On March 13, 2018, Trump announced his intention to nominate Pompeo as the newUnited States Secretary of State, succeedingRex Tillerson after March 31, 2018.[5][6]
Education, and early career[edit]
Pompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (née Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo.[7][8] He is of partial Italian ancestry. His paternal grandmother was born inCaramanico Terme.[9] In 1982, Pompeo graduated from Los Amigos High School inFountain Valley, California, where he playedpower forward on the basketball team.[10] In 1986, Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he majored in Mechanical Engineering.
From 1986 to 1991, Pompeo served in the U.S. Army as an Armor Branch Cavalry Officer, reaching the rank of Captain.[2] He served as a United States Cavalry officer patrolling theIron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall.[11] He also served with the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division in the Gulf War. [12]
In 1994, Pompeo received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was on the 81-member Board of Editors[13] of the Harvard Law Review.[2] After graduating, he worked as a lawyer for Williams & Connolly.[14]
Business career[edit]
In 1998 Pompeo moved to Wichita when he and three other West Point graduate friends Brian Bulatao, Ulrich Brechbuhl, and Michael Stradinger acquired three aircraft part makers companies in Wichita (Aero Machine, Precision Profiling, B&B Machine) and one in St. Louis (Advance Tool & Die) and renamed it Thayer Aerospace (named for West Point founder Sylvanus Thayer).[15][16][17] Venture funding for the private organization came a 2% investment from Koch Industries.[18][19] as well Dallas based Cardinal Investment and Bain Capital (Pompeo's friend Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time).[20][21] Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded but Pompeo and Bulatao continued until 2006. In 2017 when Pompeo became head of the CIA, he named Bulatao as Chief Operating Officer (a position which Pompeo renamed from its earlier name of executive director).[22]
In 2006, he sold his interest in Thayer to Highland Capital Management. The announcement said clients of the firm included "Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace,Cessna Aircraft, Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems, Raytheon Aircraft and others."[23] It was renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace.
Pompeo became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company, which was also a partner with Koch Industries.[18]
U.S. House of Representatives[edit]
Elections[edit]
- 2010
In the 2010 Kansas Republican primary for the 4th District Congressional seat, Pompeo defeated State Senator Jean Schodorf (who received 24%), Wichita businessman Wink Hartman (who received 23%), and small business owner Jim Anderson (who received 13%). State Senator Dick Kelsey also ran for the nomination, but ended his campaign before the August primary and endorsed Pompeo.[24][25]Late in the primary, Schodorf began to surge in the polls, prompting two outside groups—Americans for Prosperity and Common Sense Issues, an Ohio-based political group—to spend tens of thousands of dollars in the final campaign days to attack Schodorf and support Pompeo.[26]
In the general election, Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Raj Goyle, a member of theKansas House of Representatives. Pompeo received 59% of the vote (117,171 votes), to 36% for Goyle (71,866).[27] During the campaign, Pompeo sparked controversy when his campaign's Twitter account shared, then later deleted, a blog post calling his Indian-American opponent a "turban topper" and then-President Barack Obama an "evil Muslim communist."[28]
During the campaign, Pompeo received $80,000 in donations from Koch Industries and its employees.[29]
- 2012
In his 2012 re-election bid, Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Robert Tillman by a margin of 62%–32%.[30]
- 2014
Pompeo won the general election, defeating Democrat Perry Schuckman with 66.7% of the vote.[31]
- 2016
Pompeo beat Democrat Daniel B. Giroux in the general election with 60.6% of the vote.[32]
Committee assignments[edit]
Pompeo served on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligenceand United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the following three subcommittees: the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy, and theUnited States House Intelligence Subcommittee on the CIA. He was also on the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi.[33]
CIA Director[edit]
On November 18, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Pompeo to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[34] He was confirmed by theUnited States Senate on January 23, 2017, with a vote of 66–32, and sworn in later that day.[35][36]
In February 2017, Pompeo traveled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss policy on Syria and ISIL.[37] Pompeo honored the then-Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Nayef with the CIA's "George Tenet" Medal.[38] It was the first reaffirmation of Saudi Arabia–United States relations since Donald Trump took office in January 2017.[39]
In August 2017, Pompeo took direct command of the Counterintelligence Mission Center, the department which helped to launch an investigation into possible links between Trump associates and Russian officials.[40] Former CIA directors[who?] expressed concern since Pompeo is known to be an ally of Donald Trump.[41]
Political positions[edit]
Pompeo speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
Military and national security[edit]
Surveillance[edit]
Pompeo supports the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency, referring to the agency's efforts as "good and important work".[42]
Pompeo stated, "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."[43]
Terrorism[edit]
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.[44] The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Pompeo to revise his remarks, calling them "false and irresponsible."[45]
Prisons[edit]
Pompeo opposes closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[46] 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."[47]
Pompeo criticized the Obama administration's decision to end secret prisons and its requirement that all interrogators adhere to anti-torture laws.[48]
North Korea[edit]
Pompeo desires regime change in North Korea.[49] In July 2017, Pompeo said "It would be a great thing to denuclearize the peninsula, to get those weapons off of that, but the thing that is most dangerous about it is the character who holds the control over them today."[50]
Pompeo worked to undermine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran that was supported by the Obama administration. Referring to the agreement, Pompeo stated, "I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism."[51] Pompeo also stated that a better option than negotiating with Iran would be to use "under 2,000 sorties to destroy the Iranian nuclear capacity. This is not an insurmountable task for the coalition forces."
On July 21, 2015, Pompeo and Senator Tom Cotton alleged the existence of secret side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on procedures for inspection and verification of Iran's nuclear activities under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal. Obama administration officials acknowledged the existence of agreements between Iran and the IAEA governing the inspection of sensitive military sites but denied the characterization that they were "secret side deals", calling them standard practice in crafting arms-control pacts and arguing the administration had provided information about them to Congress.[52]
In November 2015, Pompeo visited Israel and stated that "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a true partner of the American people" and that "Netanyahu's efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons are incredibly admirable and deeply appreciated". He also stated that "In the fight against terrorism, cooperation between Israel and the United States has never been more important" and that "[w]e must stand with our ally Israel and put a stop to terrorism. Ongoing attacks by the Palestinians serve only to distance the prospect of peace".[53]
During his confirmation hearing, Pompeo stated that Russia "has reasserted itself aggressively, invading and occupying Ukraine, threatening Europe, and doing nearly nothing to aid in the destruction and defeat of ISIS".[54]
Pompeo accused President Obama of inviting Russia into Syria.[40]
WikiLeaks[edit]
In a 2017 speech addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Pompeo referred to WikiLeaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service" and described founderJulian Assange as a narcissist, fraud, and coward.
... we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us. To give them the space to crush us with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great Constitution stands for. It ends now ... Assange and his ilk make common cause with dictators today. Yes, they try unsuccessfully to cloak themselves and their actions in the language of liberty and privacy; in reality, however, they champion nothing but their own celebrity. Their currency is clickbait; their moral compass, nonexistent. Their mission: personal self-aggrandizement through the destruction of Western values.[55]
Edward Snowden[edit]
In February 2016, Pompeo said Edward 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".[56] But he has spoken in favor of reforming the Federal Records Act, one of the laws under which Snowden was charged, saying "I'm not sure there's a whole lot of change that needs to happen to the Espionage Act. The Federal Records Act clearly needs updating to reflect the different ways information is communicated and stored. Given the move in technology and communication methods, I think it's probably due for an update."[57]
In March 2014, Pompeo denounced the inclusion of a telecast by Snowden in the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, and asked that it be cancelled, predicting that it would encourage "lawless behavior" among attendees.[58]
Energy and environment[edit]
Speaking about climate change in 2013, Pompeo said: "There are scientists who think lots of different things about climate change. There's some who think we're warming, there's some who think we're cooling, there's some who think that the last 16 years have shown a pretty stable climate environment."[59]
Pompeo has stated, "Federal policy should be about the American family, not worshipping a radical environmental agenda." He has referred to the Obama administration's environment and climate change plans as "damaging" and "radical". He opposes the regulation ofgreenhouse gas emissions by the United States, and supports eliminating the United States federal register of greenhouse gas emissions.[60]
Pompeo signed the No Climate Tax pledge of Americans for Prosperity.[61]
He has called for the permanent elimination of wind power production tax credits, calling them an "enormous government handout".[62]
In December 2015, as a member of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Pompeo voted for two resolutions disapproving of the Clean Power Planimplemented by the United States Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration.
On May 9, 2013, Pompeo introduced the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act.[63]The bill would have required the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve or reject any proposal for a natural gas pipeline within 12 months.[64] The bill passed the House of Representatives along party lines but was not voted on in the Senate.[65]
Healthcare[edit]
Pompeo opposed the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[66] Pompeo has been criticized for saying that he supports funding for certain programs that are part of the ACA, yet he opposes them when they are a part of the ACA.[67]
Social issues[edit]
Pompeo has stated that life begins at conception and believes that abortions should be allowed only when necessary to save the life of the mother.[68] In 2011, Pompeo voted for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which would have banned federal health coverage that includes abortion. Also in 2011, he voted for a prohibition on funding theUnited Nations Population Fund.
Pompeo opposed same-sex marriage and had sponsored bills to let states prevent same-sex couples from marrying.[69]
Miscellaneous[edit]
Pompeo supported the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, blaming President Obama. He stated that he believed the shutdown was necessary to avoid a predicted "American financial collapse 10 years from now".[70]
Pompeo is a lifetime member of, and has been endorsed by, the National Rifle Association.[71]
Pompeo opposes requiring food suppliers to label food made with genetically modified organisms. He introduced the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 to block states from requiring mandatory GMO food labeling.[72]
Pompeo sponsored the Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013.[73]
Ideology[edit]
Pompeo is a Christian religious conservative whose beliefs inform his politics. He spoke at length of how religion informs his political ideals on video at the Summit Church God and Country Rally 2015[74]. In that speech he approvingly quoted the Robert Russell/Joseph Wright prayer which contained "We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle."[75][76]In his own words, he said "We are engaged in a struggle against radical Islam, the kind of struggle that this country has not faced since its great wars."[77]
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Personal life[edit]
Pompeo is married to Susan Pompeo and has one son, Nicholas. He attends Eastminster Presbyterian Church, affiliated[78] with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, where he serves as a Deacon and teaches the fifth-grade Sunday school class.[79]
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