For the good of America, Mike Pompeo should step down as secretary of state

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Republicans under the stinking swamp of Trump never do what is good for America!!

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For the good of America, Mike Pompeo should step down as secretary of state


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Brett Bruen, Opinion Columnist
10 hours ago

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Leah Millis/Reuters

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should step down.
He's played fast and loose with the facts, undermining his credibility on the world stage.
Pompeo has sought to politicize his office, a move no other secretary of state has taken.
For the good of America, Pompeo needs to go.


It is time for Mike Pompeo to step down as secretary of state.



He's lost the credibility needed to be America's top diplomat. He's lost control of our foreign policy. He's lost the confidence of his staff at the State Department.

For months, the complaints about his leadership slowly but steadily piled up. I've certainly had concerns, which I shared in this column. He came in promising to restore diplomats' swagger, but mostly stomped all over them. Pompeo's time at the helm has been marked by more proposed budget cuts, even greater policy concerns, and regularly running afoul of the rules.

Those issues were disturbing, but not disqualifying. The damage he has done to the office in the last few weeks is on a whole different level.

Pompeo dangerously placed personal and political interests above those of the nation and his department. With our international influence at historic lows, we can little afford a discredited secretary of state. To salvage what remains of our global strength, he needs to leave..........................


.......................But it's his obstruction of congressional oversight that's most worrisome. Pompeo has dramatically driven the department out of the legal lanes. An unaccountable foreign policy comes with considerable consequences for the country, as we have learned the hard way through difficult experiences like Iran Contra and Kissinger's meddling in Latin America.

The transcripts released this week by the House Intelligence Committee detail a world of shadow diplomacy that brings to mind those infamous affairs. His own ambassadors and envoys describe a secretary unable to control our country's foreign policy and to protect his own people. That he'd seek to shield those serious issues from view endangers our system and his staff further..........................................

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1. If we REALLY want to do something good for America....

have him take his bloated orange boss with him!

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2. For the good of the country, this whole fucking cabal should go rot in prison.

Every last corrupt criminal one of them, starting with the orange shitgibbon, and his demon spawn.