US Senate confirms Trump’s CIA director to lead a tense intelligence community

US Representative Mike Pompeo has been approved as the new director of the CIA amid a rift between the intelligence community and new President Donald Trump.

The US Senate voted 66-32 Monday to confirm the Kansas Republican to replace John Brennan as the director of the spy agency.

Trump has already been accused of undermining the intelligence community by questioning its findings in regard to Russian hacking efforts in favor of him amid the US 2016 presidential vote and likening it to the false intelligence that led to Iraq War.

The new president appeared in front of the CIA’s Memorial Wall of Agency in his first visit on Saturday, a move that has apparently done little to end frictions.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer downplayed the rift between the new administration and the CIA, calling it a “myth.”

“That doesn’t sound like a huge feud. They were excited. They were clapping. They were cheering when he walked in,” he told reporters….

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