Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was questioned by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) before the House Foreign Affairs Committee:
LIEU: Are you going to speak at CPAC today?
POMPEO: Yes.
LIEU: So you could only give two hours to Congress, and instead of answering...
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Previously US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that Iranian authorities have been downplaying the scale of the coronavirus epidemic following reports that its death toll in the country might be more than two times that stated in official...
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The United States will act if Russia seeks to undermine this year's U.S. presidential election, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, but gave no other details about what steps the Trump administration would take."Meddling in our...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held phone talks with Iraq’s new Prime Minister-designate, Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, urging him to focus on the upcoming elections and the protection of US facilities, the US State...
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A report on the Internet states that cyber expert and NSA whistleblower, Bill Binney, shared information two and a half years ago with then CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, that he had evidence that the Russians did not hack the DNC in 2016.
According to...
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U.S. officials and the Taliban have reached an “understanding” that could result in a “reduction in violence” in Afghanistan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday, paving the way for an agreement later this month that would bring...
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Oman’s new leader Sultan Haitham bin Tariq in Muscat on Friday, Omani state media said, during the top American diplomat’s final stop in a tour of African and Gulf states. Pompeo is the first...
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KABUL (Sputnik) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his country’s negotiators had come to an understanding with Taliban militants that they would sign a peace deal on 29 February if a week went by without significant clashes between US and...
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The United States is preparing to sign a deal with the Taliban on February 29, building on an agreement on reducing violence across Afghanistan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. “Upon a successful implementation of this...
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Ethiopia this week trumpeting a message of entrepreneurial liberation.
Pompeo Visits Ethiopia
On Wednesday, Pompeo spoke at the African Union, addressing government and business leaders from across the...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is condemning China for its decision to expel three reporters from The Wall Street Journal from the country.
"Mature, responsible countries understand that a free press reports facts and expresses opinions," Pompeo...
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The US secretary of state previously held talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Sahle-Work Zewde, discussing security issues in the sub-Saharan region, as well as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, which has...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Riyadh on Wednesday at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East. Some issues on the agenda include tensions with Iran, the Trump administration's Mideast peace plan, the ongoing war in Yemen and...
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the African Union chairman Tuesday in Addis Ababa at the end of a whirlwind Africa tour that included Senegal and Angola.Pompeo's first official visit to Africa...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a
powerful defense of American leadership of the West over the weekend at the
Munich Security Conference, Europe’s most important annual gathering of
national security and foreign policy officials....
Michael Rubin
Security, Americas
Bipartisanship is rare in Washington, but when the Trump administration initially began slashing State Department funding, Democrats and Republicans came together to tell Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the...
At the Munich Security Conference the U.S. and its allies had no idea of how to handle China, a problem of their greed and stupidity. The West is divided, confused. What to do about Huawei? Really, what to do with China? So when Mike...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the first U.S. Cabinet official to visit Africa in 19 months when his predecessor, Rex Tillerson, cut short a trip in March 2018 and was fired shortly afterward.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrapped up a visit to Senegal on Sunday, where he discussed the U.S. role in security issues in Africa.This visit came as the U.S. Defense Department is conducting a global force review and has indicated there likely...
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Before landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, Feb 19, US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo underscored the importance of the
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