Reports: Trump Selects Rep. Mike Pompeo To Head CIA

Who?

Is he KKK or CCC or a White Nationalist?

Sessions for AG? good grief.

Pompeo opposes the Affordable Care Act.[10]

Pompeo is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, which has endorsed him.[11]

Pompeo opposes closing Guantánamo Bay detention camp.[12] 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.”[13]

Pompeo supported the federal Government shutdown of 2013, blaming President Obama while acknowledging that the Republican Party could take a hit from the shutdown. He stated that he believed the shutdown was necessary to avoid a predicted “American financial collapse 10 years from now.”[14] In January 2014, Pompeo voted against a two-year budget deal drafted by Paul Ryan that would avert any government shutdown until 2015 and cut deficits by $23 billion.[15]

Pompeo opposes the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, and supports eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas registry program.[16] He signed the Americans for Prosperity’s No Climate Tax pledge.[17] He has called for the elimination of Wind power production tax credits, calling them an “enormous government handout”.[18]

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.[19] The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Pompeo to revise his remarks, calling them “false and irresponsible”.[20]

Pompeo supports the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, characterizing the agency’s efforts as “good and important work.”[21] In November 2016, Pompeo called for Snowden to receive the death penalty: "“He 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.”[22] 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conference in Austin, Texas, and called for Snowden’s invitation to speak via telecast at the annual Texas event be withdrawn, lest it encourage “lawless behavior” among attendees.[23]

Pompeo is strongly anti-abortion.[24] He believes that abortion should be permitted in cases when the mother’s life is at risk, but should be illegal in cases of rape and incest.[25]