Senate confirms Mike Pompeo to lead CIA

The U.S. Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo to run the Central Intelligence Agency Monday. Pompeo, a Republican congressman representing Kansas, was confirmed by a vote of 66-32 after Senate Democrats forced a three-day delay. Pompeo will be responsible for managing a global spying network at a time of escalating security problems, including renewed aggression from Russia, the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and the terror threat posed by the Islamic State. Trump has confidence in Pompeo, a businessman who served as a tank commander in the Army and graduated at the top of his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.