EIGHT years ago Mike Pompeo was a 47-year-old greenhorn congressional candidate in Wichita, Kansas, with a modest business career and unremarkable limited-government views. He was best known for being the biggest recipient of campaign donations from Wichita's largest private-sector employer, Koch Industries. No one, save possibly that company's conservative mega-donor owners, marked him out for greatness. Yet with the Senate's blessing, which is likely to be forthcoming, Mr Pompeo will shortly be the first person to have occupied the offices of both CIA director and secretary of state.
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