Just when I thought I’d hosed off the fan…
WaPo:
CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-secret visit to North Korea over Easter weekend as an envoy for President Trump to meet with that country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, according to two people with direct knowledge of the trip.
The extraordinary meeting between one of Trump’s most trusted emissaries and the authoritarian head of a rogue state was part of an effort to lay the groundwork for direct talks between Trump and Kim about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, according to the two people, who requested anonymity because of the highly classified nature of the talks.
“We have had direct talks at very high levels, extremely high levels with North Korea,” Trump said Tuesday during a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago, his winter resort.
The best levels! Sure doesn’t sound like the act of a President intent on bombing the hell out of NK, as has been the fear for many. Sounds more like he’s up to his usual: a grift with a foreign country.
The clandestine mission, which has not previously been reported, came soon after Pompeo was nominated to be secretary of state.
Well, THAT, sounds problematic. So was he meeting as part of the CIA, or um, taking some initiative before his confirmation?
The opposition to Pompeo is slowly building. Let’s This WaPo news tanks his chances even further.