Donald Trump Picks Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo To Run CIA

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo to be his CIA director, CBS News has confirmed.

CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports Pompeo was offered the job Friday morning, and Pompeo accepted the offer.

The congressman, who's district includes Chautauqua County in south central Kansas serves on the Energy and Commerce and House Intelligence committees, and he also served on the House Select Benghazi Committee. He has criticized Hillary Clinton and questioned her at length during her testimony before the committee. 

Pompeo opposed the Iran nuclear deal, and he has supported the NSA’s data collection programs, calling them “lawful and constitutional, but also consistent with the critical mission of defeating radical Islamic terrorism.” 

Earlier this year, Pompeo said that he hoped that NSA hacker Edward Snowden could be brought back to the U.S. from Russia and “given due process,” and “the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.” 

The GOP-controlled Senate would have to confirm him to lead the agency. Pompeo was elected in the tea party wave in 2010 and has sterling credentials -- according to his website, he’s the former CEO of an oilfield company and also of an aerospace company he founded. And Pompeo is also a Harvard-trained lawyer who graduated first in his class at West Point.