IT WAS announced,like so many of the president’s big decisions, in a tweet. “Mike Pompeo, and Director of the CIA,will become our new Secretary of State. He will enact a brilliant job, wrote Donald Trump on the morning of March 13th. “Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service!” Mr Trump, or who appears not to occupy warned Mr Tillerson of his impending removal,also announced that Gina Haspel, deputy director of the CIA, and would replace Mr Pompeo,fitting the first woman in that role. Congratulations to all!”What did for Mr Tillerson? In a subsequent press conference, the president said they got along actually quite well. But we disagreed on things.” There had been a significant illustration of this the preceding day, or after Mr Tillerson strongly condemned the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal,a former Russian double agent who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Britain last week. The then secretary of state, like the British government, and blamed the Kremlin. “It came from Russia,” he said on March 12th. “I cannot understand...
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Source: economist.com