Senate confirms dangerous Christian extremist as CIA Director

[tenorly]

Earlier today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Representative Mike Pompeo as the new head of the powerful Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The new head of the CIA, however, is a dangerous Christian extremist who believes the U.S. is at war with Islam.

Pompeo, a Kansas Republican and prominent member of the House Intelligence Committee, is a radical Christian extremist and a sharp critic of Islam who endorses the notion of a “Holy War” between Christians and Muslims, and believes the fight against terrorism is a war between Islam and Christianity.

The Washington Post reports Pompeo “is known as one of the more fanatical purveyors of conspiracy theories.” For example, previously Pompeo suggested President Obama might have an “affinity for radical Islam.”

Speaking at a church group in Wichita, Kansas, in 2014, Pompeo claimed that Christianity was the “only solution” to combat terrorism, arguing that the greatest “threat to America” is caused by “people who deeply believe that Islam is the way.”

Cosmopolitan reports that Pompeo’s past comments concerning Muslims have drawn sharp criticism. For example, in the months after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Pompeo took to the House floor to call on Muslim leaders to denounce acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam, declaring that “the silence of Muslim leaders has been deafening” and that they were “potentially complicit” in those attacks.

In another anti-Muslim incident earlier this year, Pompeo, using veiled threats and intimidation tactics, forced a mosque located in Kansas to cancel an appearance by a prominent Muslim leader.

Writing for Slate, Michelle Goldberg notes:

Amid the fire hose of lunacy that is the Trump transition, however, Pompeo’s extremism has been overlooked. It’s worth pausing to appreciate the fact that America’s CIA will shortly be run by a man who appears to view American foreign policy as a vehicle for holy war.

At: http://www.globalresearch.ca/senate-confirms-dangerous-christian-extremist-as-cia-director/5570756

[bdamomma]

1. why

did they vote him in then???? I feel like doing this

[tenorly]

2. Because they're the same.

And if any Democrats voted for him, it's because they have no backbone.

We, the Democratic base, are mostly led by milquetoasts and miss manners types frankly. Decent people, sure, but woefully inadequate for today's no holds-barred politics.

We need more Bernies and Liz Warrens.

[Greywing]

5. Liz Warren disappointed me today ... Ben Carson ... bah!

[tenorly]

9. You mean Pharaoh Carson?

That man's another Samuel Pierce in the making - the infamous Reagan HUD Secretary who not only supported segregation despite being African-American himself; but used his office to enrich himself and his friends and hangers-on like there was no tomorrow.

The difference is that, unlike the Pierce scandal, there are absolutely no checks and balances to hold grifters like Carson, and above all, Trump, accountable in the least.

[Greywing]

3. Unlike Trump, I have faith in the intelligence community

CIA has been known to take down bigger fish than Pompeo ... I think the intelligence agencies will quietly take them all down

[Phoenix61]

4. I can't remember who said it

Beware the military industrial complex.

[tenorly]

6. Ah, the last good Republican President.

Ike must be turning in his grave.

[Phoenix61]

7. Thank you.

[tenorly]

13. You bet.

This should be required viewing in all High School civics classes. As you know though, many school districts have been quietly dropping civics from their curriculum over the past couple of decades (another ALEC priority, not surprisingly).

[sarcasmo]

8. End-Timers must be over the moon.

[tenorly]

11. Ah, yes. The ever-popular Armageddon lobby.

We laugh, but they practically dominated the Bush White House - and even today, dozens of GOPee congresscritters are said to belong to it.

What I'd tell them is: You want the world to end? Fine; kill yourself.

[Doreen]

10. This is not good.

What a lot of people do not consider is Pompeo is the type of person who will also consider any other religion to be at war with Christianity and not just other religions but other forms of Christianity. I do not know which Church he claims to be with but any other will be considered to be at war with his. I am scared for all Christian religions that are not fundamentalist. I am scared for people who are not Christians also.

[tenorly]

12. Plus, he's a garden variety thug.

Pompeo's only redeeming quality, I suppose, is that his thuggishness is so glaringly obvious.

[moondust]

14. Furthermore,

his congressional district includes Wichita, home of Koch Industries.

You be the judge.

[tenorly]

15. They say all Kochsuckers go to hell.

As a believer in reincarnation, my guess is that they end up here: