Tillerson is put out of his misery
by Jennifer Rubin March 13 at 9:39 AM
The Post reports:
President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.
Trump last Friday asked Tillerson to step aside, and the embattled top diplomat cut short his trip to Africa on Monday to return to Washington.
Pompeo will replace him at the State Department, and Gina Haspel — the deputy director at the CIA — will succeed him at the CIA, becoming the first woman to run the spy agency, if confirmed.
The good news is that Haspel, a 30-year veteran of the CIA, not uber-partisan Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), will replace Pompeo. She drew rave reviews from former acting CIA director John McLaughlin, who told me she is a “consummate professional†and “well-respected throughout the Agency.†The protection of the CIA’s independence and integrity is essential under any administration, but no more so under Trump, given his aversion to truth-telling and his habit of contradicting the intelligence community.
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