Pompeo seems to be a deep insider of the swamp ... controlled opposition ... connected to Koch Bros. so no great friends of trump ... So he seems to be there to handle the backstabbing ...
Lets see ... What happened to the Tea Party ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo...
He was a Kansas representative on the Republican National Committee and member of the Italian American Congressional Delegation.
Pompeo is also a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party.[3]
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In 1986, Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in engineering management.[9][13][14]
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[ I find it interesting .... Harvard ... Of course ... so easy to get into .... ] In 1994, Pompeo received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as one of 78 editors of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy[19][20] and on the 81-member board of editors[21] of the Harvard Law Review.[2]
After graduating, he worked as a lawyer for the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington....
In 1998, Pompeo moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he and three other West Point friends, Brian Bulatao, Ulrich Brechbuhl, and Michael Stradinger, acquired three aircraft-part manufacturers there (Aero Machine, Precision Profiling, B&B Machine) and in St. Louis (Advance Tool & Die), renaming the entity
Thayer Aerospace after West Point superintendent Sylvanus Thayer.[23][24][25] Venture funding for the private organization included a nearly
20% investment from Koch Industries [26] as well as Dallas-based
Cardinal Investment, and Bain & Company (Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time).[27][23] Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded, but Pompeo and Bulatao continued.
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Pompeo represented Kansas's 4th congressional district from 2011 until his January 2017 appointment to director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)https://www.wc.com/Last Edit by Palmerston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_&_Connolly...
The firm was founded by trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams in collaboration with Paul Connolly, a former student of his. Williams left the partnership of D.C. firm Hogan & Hartson to launch his own litigation firm.
Recent high-profile cases include the successful defense of U.S. President Clinton's impeachment, representation of Enron's law firm Vinson & Elkins, representation of the motion picture studios in the Kazaa/Grokster file-trading litigation, defense of the Vioxx cases, and
counsel for the plaintiff states in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust remedy trial. The firm represented Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair and J
ohn Hinckley, the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan.[3][4][5]...
Williams & Connolly partner Robert Barnett has represented Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, James Patterson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Bob Woodward, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Alan Greenspan, Katharine Graham, Ben Bernanke, Paul Ryan, Tim Russert, Barbra Streisand, Jack Welch, Khaled Hosseini, Bill Walton, Mitch McConnell, Jake Tapper, and many others.[6] [7]
The firm's corporate clients include
Google, Disney, Samsung, Intel, Bank of America, The Carlyle Group, Medtronic, Genentech, Eli Lilly, and 21st Century Fox. [8]
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