Trump's new secretary of state is a Tea Party Republican who couldn't be more different from Rex Til

[TomSea]

Trump's new secretary of state is a Tea Party Republican who couldn't be more different from Rex Tillerson
Brennan Weiss
Leah Millis/Reuters

    CIA Director Mike Pompeo is set to become the next secretary of state, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.
    Pompeo will replace Rex Tillerson, who has long been at odds with Trump over his approach to various foreign-policy issues, including the Iran nuclear deal.
    Pompeo is a Tea Party Republican who regularly defends Trump and shares his aggressive approach to international diplomacy.

Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pompeo-a-tea-party-republican-is-different-from-rex-tillerson-2018-3

[Bigun]

That's great news if true!

And if it is true, I'll bet ole Mitch is crapping himself about now.

[edpc]

The only issue I have with Pompeo is on his view of metadata collection.

"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."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-for-a-rigorous-national-debate-about-surveillance-1451856106


He's going to be called bellicose and said to make John Bolton look like Gandhi by the usual suspects, due to his views on Russia, Iran, and North Korea.