Pompeo is a corrupt and "dirty" political hack who has been given a prestigious and important government position. He is currently shaming America.
That may well all be correct, Camp. However, my point was, whoever enters the Trump administration will be degraded to become a lick-spittle member of the Trump campaign, or be gone soon. Since these functions are inevitably at odds, the resulting utterances and policies are catastrophic, at the very least not in the interest of citizens.
Not that I have any sympathies for Pence, Barr, or Pompeo, but how anyone can watch these boot-lickers without an intense admixture of embarrassment, pity, and disgust escapes me entirely. Still, it's best to bear in mind they are working for the Committee to Reelect Trump, not for the American people.
The real question here is, who leaked that confidential German spy agency paper, and why? What's the intent? Merely to embarrass Pompeo isn't sufficient grounds for that. Now, it may well have been the Germans, but they are risking to incur severe repercussions in terms of reduced intelligence cooperation, while getting little out of the exercise. That leaves "Five Eyes" trying to reign in Pompeo while everyone would assume the Germans leaked the paper. Impossible to know, but...