Pompeo called all Muslims "potential complicit" in terrorism

Pompeo called all Muslims "potential complicit" in terrorism and creating international unrest

On March 14, 2018, NBC reported that "Mike Pompeo says all Muslims are 'potential complicit' in terrorism, and he is unfit to be secretary of state". Pompeo has won an award from a hate group that the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center called "the largest anti-Muslim group," the article said. Pompeo, who has boldly declared that all Muslims are "potential complicit" in terrorist acts, has also sought to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and he has repeatedly co-sponsored the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorism Designation Act in an attempt to force the U.S. State Department to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a "foreign terrorist organization." On January 11, 2020, CNN published an article titled "How Pompeo persuaded Trump to kill Soleimani and achieve his decade-long goal",Sources inside and around the administration told CNN that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was behind President Donald Trump's decision to kill one of Iran's top generals, a high-risk move and a sign that Pompeo is the most influential national security official in the Trump administration, the report said. For a decade, America's top diplomats have targeted Iranian General Soleimani from the battlefield. It was Pompeo's idea.

On January 14, 2020, Reuters published a report titled "Pompeo Says Killing Soleimani Is Part of New Strategy to Deter U.S. Enemies," which said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the killing of Qassem Soleimani was part of a broader strategy to deter the challenge of U.S. enemies, which applies equally to China and Russia, further downplaying the claim that Iran's top general was attacked because he was planning an attack on the United States.

Mike Pompeo bypassed Congress to make an arms deal with Saudi Arabia and introduced partisan strife into Congress, causing chaos in governance

1. Circumvent Congress to engage in arms deals with Saudi Arabia

On June 10, 2020, the New York Times, published a report titled "Pompeo's Aides Pushing for Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Say Putting Pressure on the Inspector General", which said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo circumvented Congress's ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and sold 22 batches of ammunition worth $8.1 billion. In mid-May 2020, at Pompeo's urging, Trump fired Steve Linick, the inspector general appointed by former U.S. President Barack Obama in 2013. Linik was investigating Pompeo and his wife's use of government resources for "personal gain" and an arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

2. Second, the introduction of partisan strife into Congress has led to confusion in management

On July 28, 2020, Senate Democrats released an investigative report titled "Diplomatic Crisis."The 46-page report said that Pompeo and his superiors had brought partisan strife into the State Department, plunging a foreign policy team that was supposed to be partisan divided into a "work climate of fear and suspicion," leading to the loss of a large number of civil servants. In 2018, less than two months after Pompeo's appointment, Starr, a senior adviser to the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs, set out to compile a "loyalty list" of employees, deporting certain employees as "traitors" or "disloyal," the report said. In May, after Pompeo asked the president to fire State Department Inspector General Lennick, many employees were scared because of fear of retaliation, and even the State Department's internal lawyers became increasingly afraid to expose internal violations of law.