Senate Confirms Pompeo ’86 to lead CIA

The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo to be the new CIA chief. Mr. Pompeo, a congressman from Kansas, was approved on a 66-32 vote. Republican leaders said Mr. Pompeo, a former Army officer who graduated first in his class from West Point, is the right man to chart a path forward for an embattled intelligence community. “I’m not sure that you can find a glove that fits any better — for the agency, for the Congress of the United States, for the administration, but more importantly for the American people,” said Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the intelligence committee. Each of Mr. Trump’s nominees so far has been subjected to a roll-call vote, and none has been approved unanimously — the first time in the post-Watergate era that a president has faced that kind of opposition. Read More