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  #1 tonercartridge on 14 Mar 18

   

  Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director who President Donald Trump has picked to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, is known for both his close ties with the president and his prior career as a hard-charging partisan in Congress.
  
  "Tremendous energy, tremendous intellect, we're always on the same wavelength," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "The relationship has been very good, and that's what I need as secretary of state."
  
  As secretary of state, Pompeo will face the singularly difficult task of maintaining his relationship with Trump without alienating Democrats and allies elsewhere, reviving a State Department demoralized by a year of upheaval, and managing tense standoffs with North Korea, Iran and Russia.
  
  Pompeo was elected to Congress from Kansas as part of the tea party wave in 2010 after a career in the Army, where he graduated from West Point and became a cavalry officer, and as a businessman. In Congress, he developed a rapport with Republicans working on intelligence and played a prominent role in the Select Committee on Benghazi, which investigated the terrorist attack there in 2012, giving him a base of support on Capitol Hill.
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  His resume and demeanor have served him well within the administration, observers said Tuesday, helping him build trust with a president who has a habit of injecting politics into institutions like law enforcement and intelligence that typically labor to avoid it.
  
  "A lot of it is the tea party connection," Michael Pillsbury, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, who worked with Pompeo on the Trump transition team, told NBC News. "Pompeo's own views are sympathetic with or resonate with Trump's campaign promises in a way that Tillerson's did not."
  
  At the same time, Pompeo has earned a reputation for getting along with career staff at the CIA, avoiding a problem that plagued Tillerson at the State Department, where the nation's top diplomat left numerous positions unfilled and clashed with the existing bureaucracy, presiding over a wave of exits by career foreign service officials.
  
  "He's viewed as is being a decent manager of the building, but also deeply ideological on certain issues," Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said of Pompeo.
  
  Many of Trump's own foreign policy views have been liable to change with the wind, but Pompeo's ideological bent as a conservative hawk seems to fit with the president's instincts so far.
  
  This could be especially relevant when it comes to Iran, where Trump is threatening to exit the nuclear deal negotiated under President Barack Obama unless America's allies and Congress add new conditions and enforcement measures. Pompeo is considered more hostile to the deal than Tillerson, which Trump singled out as a major reason for the cabinet change.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director who President Donald Trump has picked to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, is known for both his close ties with the president and his prior career as a hard-charging partisan in Congress. <br /> <br /> "Tremendous energy, tremendous intellect, we're always on the same wavelength," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "The relationship has been very good, and that's what I need as secretary of state." <br /> <br /> As secretary of state, Pompeo will face the singularly difficult task of maintaining his relationship with Trump without alienating Democrats and allies elsewhere, reviving a State Department demoralized by a year of upheaval, and managing tense standoffs with North Korea, Iran and Russia. <br /> <br /> Pompeo was elected to Congress from Kansas as part of the tea party wave in 2010 after a career in the Army, where he graduated from West Point and became a cavalry officer, and as a businessman. In Congress, he developed a rapport with Republicans working on intelligence and played a prominent role in the Select Committee on Benghazi, which investigated the terrorist attack there in 2012, giving him a base of support on Capitol Hill. <br /> Kyocera FS-1128MFP Drum Unit <br /> <a href="http://wxq-3.com/a/qi_qushi/20180204/386.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wxq-3.com/a/qi_qushi/20180204/386.html</a> <br /> <br /> His resume and demeanor have served him well within the administration, observers said Tuesday, helping him build trust with a president who has a habit of injecting politics into institutions like law enforcement and intelligence that typically labor to avoid it. <br /> <br /> "A lot of it is the tea party connection," Michael Pillsbury, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, who worked with Pompeo on the Trump transition team, told NBC News. "Pompeo's own views are sympathetic with or resonate with Trump's campaign promises in a way that Tillerson's did not." <br /> <br /> At the same time, Pompeo has earned a reputation for getting along with career staff at the CIA, avoiding a problem that plagued Tillerson at the State Department, where the nation's top diplomat left numerous positions unfilled and clashed with the existing bureaucracy, presiding over a wave of exits by career foreign service officials. <br /> <br /> "He's viewed as is being a decent manager of the building, but also deeply ideological on certain issues," Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said of Pompeo. <br /> <br /> Many of Trump's own foreign policy views have been liable to change with the wind, but Pompeo's ideological bent as a conservative hawk seems to fit with the president's instincts so far. <br /> <br /> This could be especially relevant when it comes to Iran, where Trump is threatening to exit the nuclear deal negotiated under President Barack Obama unless America's allies and Congress add new conditions and enforcement measures. Pompeo is considered more hostile to the deal than Tillerson, which Trump singled out as a major reason for the cabinet change.</div>

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