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Reuters: Trump’s CIA pick supports domestic surveillance, opposes Iran deal

Published Nov. 18, 2016 at 11:18 pm

(FILES) This file photo taken on October 22, 2015 shows Republican US Representative from Kansas Mike Pompeo listening as former US Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Jeff Sessions, a conservative senator who was one of his early backers in the race for the White House, to be attorney general, US media reported Friday. And US Representative Mike Pompeo has been selected to be CIA director, news outlets said.

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Representative Mike Pompeo, President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise choice to head the CIA, supports the U.S. government’s sweeping collection of Americans’ communications data and wants to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran.

The retired Army officer, West Point and Harvard Law School graduate also has defended the CIA’s use of interrogation techniques that are widely condemned as torture.