Pompeo: Raid on Trump's home reveals 'dangerous' partisan motives in national security agencies

national security agencies including the FBI are under assault from their leaders’ “political mindset” that threatens to undermine the core mission of protecting Americans, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview.

Asked about the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Mr.

Pompeo said it’s imperative to “strip out the politics” from the agency’s day-to-day operations.

“If you put political leaders there that have an agenda that is not connected to the mission set, whether that’s [the Defense Department] or the intelligence community, including the FBI … if they’ve begun to run operations that reflect politics, not excellence in mission, it is very dangerous,” Mr.

law-enforcement institutions, including the CIA and the intelligence community, “have to strip out politics.”.

Trump’s home revealed that the Justice Department is investigating the former president for possible violations of the Espionage Act, connected to his possession of classified material.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said he approved the search of Mr.

Trump’s home.

Trump’s home] looks for all the world like this was a decision that is very different than the decision that was made when I sat on the Benghazi committee,” Mr.

But we didn’t raid her home, right.

institutions such as the FBI “are under assault in ways that are fundamentally different than I have seen.” He criticized his predecessor at the helm of the CIA, John Brennan, for helping to politicize national-security agencies, including signing a statement during the 2020 presidential campaign saying that scandalous stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop were likely Russian disinformation