CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose business link to China

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• CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose links to a company owned by the Chinese government during his 2017 confirmation.
• The CIA defended Pompeo’s omission saying, “He would have no reason to know details on the layers of companies” that worked with a business he ran in Kansas.
• But in 2010, Pompeo expressly described the Chinese company as a supplier to his own firm.

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose links to a company owned by the Chinese government.

Pompeo, who is set to attend a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday in hopes of filling the vacant Secretary of State role, left out his connection to a Chinese company during last year’s confirmation to become head of the CIA.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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