WASHINGTON — Mike Pompeo, the former Central Intelligence Agency director and Secretary of State, escalated his feud with the Washington Post on Wednesday over the legacy of slain journalist Jamal Khashogi, which the newspaper has accused him of tarnishing.
In his new book, “Never Give an Inch,” Pompeo, a Republican who is likely to run for president in 2024, describes the Post columnist — who was murdered by agents of the Saudi ruling family in 2018 — as an “activist,” seeming to suggest Khashoggi did not deserve to be called a journalist.
“He didn’t deserve to die, but we need to be clear about who he was — and too many in the media were not,” Pompeo writes of the slain 59-year-old.."It is shameful that Pompeo would spread vile falsehoods to dishonor a courageous man's life and service — and his commitment to principles Americans hold dear — as a ploy to sell books." Seemingly intent on proving his book's title true, Pompeo defended his criticisms of Khashoggi."Americans are safer because we didn't label Saudi Arabia a pariah state,"in response to Ryan."I never let the media bully me. Just b/c someone is a part-time stringer for WaPo doesn't make their life more important than our military serving in dangerous places protecting us all. I never forgot that." In journalistic parlance, “stringers” are field reporters tasked with gathering on-the-ground information — often less experienced and sometimes heavily rewritten by more senior colleagues — not columnists of Khashoggi’s stature and with his decades of journalism experience.
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