Democrats block Pompeo CIA confirmation vote amid Trump’s feud with intel

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Mcclatchy:

January 20, 2017 10:43 AM

Democrats block Pompeo CIA confirmation vote amid Trump’s feud with intel

By Lindsay Wise and Tim Johnson

WASHINGTON

 

An objection from three Democratic senators will delay the U.S. Senate’s vote to confirm Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

 

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said on Friday that they oppose “a rushed confirmation” of Rep. Mike Pompeo to serve as CIA director unless senators get the opportunity to debate the nomination.

 

“The importance of the position of CIA Director, especially in these dangerous times, demands that the nomination be thoroughly vetted, questioned and debated,” the senators said in a statement

 

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This is all political shenanigans on the part of the party who lost in the elections, and who continue to lose influence across the country. They know what they're doing, and they're lying through their teeth about an opportunity to thoroughly vet Pompeo and to suggest otherwise is pure hypocrisy..

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