Trump's CIA pick grills defense leaders on manipulated intelligence response

By Jordana Mishory / November 23, 2016 at 11:08 AM
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the CIA, pressed the deputy defense secretary and the outgoing director of national intelligence on what accountability there would be for charges that senior leaders received manipulated intelligence on the conflict in the Middle East, saying it was "unacceptable" that defense officials were waiting for results of an inspector general's report before taking action. During a Nov. 17 hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , Pompeo demanded...

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