Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as CIA Director

Mike Pompeo was the third of Trump’s nominees to win confirmation.

Pompeo has served in Congress since 2011 and Trump picked him for the position in mid-November last year.

As CIA director, Pompeo will be responsible for managing a global spying network at a time of escalating security problems, including renewed aggression from Russia, the nuclear ambitions of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the splintering terrorism threat posed by the Islamic State.

Mike Pompeo was the US Representative for Kansas' 4th congressional district from 2011-2017. He was a Kansas representative on the Republican National Committee.

Earlier, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted along party lines to approve former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as President Trump’s Secretary of State./.