Always meant to dig a bit into Pompeo and never got around to it before, but did a light dig today.
It's just wikifagging but here are some pros and cons that I can see.
Pros-
-In 1986, Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he majored in mechanical engineering.
-From 1986 to 1991, Pompeo served in the U.S. Army as an Armor Branch cavalry officer.[2] He served as a United States Cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall.[11] He also served with the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division in the Gulf War.
-During the campaign, Pompeo sparked controversy when his campaign's Twitter account shared, then later deleted, a blog post calling his Indian-American opponent a "turban topper" and then-President Barack Obama an "evil Muslim communist."
-He was a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party.
-In August 2017, Pompeo took direct command of the Counterintelligence Mission Center, the department which helped to launch an investigation into possible links between Trump associates and Russian officials.[33] Former CIA directors[who?] expressed concern since Pompeo is known to be an ally of Donald Trump.
-Pompeo supports the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency, referring to the agency's efforts as "good and important work."
-In a 2013 speech on the House floor, Pompeo said Muslim leaders who fail to denounce acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam are "potentially complicit" in the attacks.[37] The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Pompeo to revise his remarks, calling them "false and irresponsible."
-Pompeo opposes closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[39] After a 2013 visit to the prison, Pompeo said, of the prisoners who were on hunger strike, "It looked to me like a lot of them had put on weight."
-Pompeo criticized the Obama administration's decision to end secret prisons and its requirement that all interrogators adhere to anti-torture laws.
-Pompeo worked to undermine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran that was supported by the Obama administration. Referring to the agreement, Pompeo stated “I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.”[44] Pompeo also stated that a better option than negotiating with Iran would be to use “under 2,000 sorties to destroy the Iranian nuclear capacity. This is not an insurmountable task for the coalition forces.”
-In February 2016, Pompeo said Edward Snowden "should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence."
-Pompeo is a lifetime member of, and has been endorsed by, the National Rifle Association.
-Pompeo is a Christian religious conservative whose beliefs inform his politics. He spoke at length of how religion informs his political ideals on video at the Summit Church God and Country Rally 2015[66]. In that speech he approvingly quoted the Robert Russell/Joseph Wright prayer which contained "We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle."[67][68] In his own words, he said "We are engaged in a struggle against radical Islam, the kind of struggle that this country has not faced since its great wars."
Cons-
-In 1994, Pompeo received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, where he was on the 81-member board of editors[13] of the Harvard Law Review. (Obummer was an editor there too)
-In 1998, along with other West Point alumni, Pompeo founded Thayer Aerospace and Private Security, which received a 2% investment from Koch Industries. (Ew Koch)
-During the campaign, Pompeo received $80,000 in donations from Koch Industries and its employees. (Ew Koch)
-In a 2017 speech addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Pompeo referred to WikiLeaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service" and described founder Julian Assange as a narcissist, fraud, and coward. (Great Actors?)
-Pompeo opposes requiring food suppliers to label food made with genetically modified organisms. He introduced the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 to block states from requiring mandatory GMO food labeling.
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo