President Trump signals strong right-wing shift in latest appointments
Q. President elect Donald Trump has signaled a shift in national security policy by:- Published on 21 Nov 16a. Appointing Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general
b. Putting Kansas Representative Mike Pompeo as the CIA head
c. Appointing Michael Flynn as NSA
d. All of the above
ANSWER: All of the above
President elect
Donald Trump has signalled a strong rightward shift in the US national security policy on 18th Nov 2016, naming the Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as the attorney general.
- He has also appointed Mike Pompeo to head the CIA and former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn to be his NSA
- All three have been fierce critics of President Obama’s handling of terrorism and international relations
- Mr. Trump’s selection is being closely watched in the US and overseas. Flynn called Islam a political ideology hiding behind a religion
- Sessions was the first political senator to endorse Trump, rallying behind his hardline immigration approach
- Pompeo is a conservative Republican and a strong critic of the US-Iran nuclear deal
- Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden should be sentenced to death, says Pompeo
