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    Mike Pompeo On The Record

    Mike Pompeo On The Record


    Data taken from https://thenewamerican.com/mike-pomp...l-libertarian/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo


    - Mike Pompeo, was president of Sentry International, an oil-field equipment company.

    - Mike Pompeo was a member of the United States House of Representatives (Kansas) from 2011 to 2017.

    - On November 18, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Pompeo to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 2017, with a vote of 66–32, and sworn in later that day. In his confirmation he failed to disclose the links between his company in Kansas and a Chinese government owned firm.

    - In 2017, when Pompeo became head of the CIA, he named his former business partner, Brian Bulatao, the agency's chief operating officer.

    - In September 2017, Pompeo sought authority for the CIA to make covert drone strikes without the Pentagon's involvement, including inside Afghanistan.

    - In May 2019, Pompeo announced an "emergency" to push through $8.1 billion of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, citing Iranian activity in the Middle East. This led to widespread Congressional opposition and eventually a probe by former State Department inspector general Steve Linick, who was fired by the Trump administration on Pompeo's recommendation.

    - Mike Pompeo voted AGAINST an effort to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which had authorized President George W. Bush to invade Iraq. The results of this open-ended military force authorization illustrates a reason to oppose mere congressional authorizations, rather war declarations. Congress chose to leave it up to the president whether to use military force in Iraq, instead of a more specific declaration of war. This unconstitutional delegation to the president of the congressional power to declare war is why the AUMF is still in effect, 15 years later.

    - Mike Pompeo vote in 2015 to GIVE President Obama “Trade Promotion Authority.” This bill provided that Congress could vote only up or down the multilateral trade deal known as TPP. These globalist trade deals are not actually “free trade” bills, but are rather transfers of U.S. sovereignty to international governments.

    - Mike Pompeo SUPPORTS the indefinite military detention of any person detained under AUMF authority in the United States.

    - Mike Pompeo, in April 2015, voted in SUPPORT of the CyberSecurity Protection Advancement Act. Congressman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) opposed the bill, arguing it violates “the Fourth Amendment … and give[s] the government unwarranted access to the personal information of potentially millions of Americans.”

    - Mike Pompeo is an ardent SUPPORTER of the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they do “good and important work.” Pompeo said that whistleblower 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.”

    - Mike Pompeo voted in 2014 AGAINST an amendment to a Defense funding bill that proposed to prevent any defense monies be used to allow intelligence agencies to sift through electronic metadata that contains personal information of American citizens and legal residents. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), the author of the amendment, said, “The American people are tired of being spied on.”

    - Mike Pompeo insisted: “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. “

    - Pompeo was originally a supporter of Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).



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