Article snippet: Senate Democrats are providing tepid praise to CIA Director MORE. But several also offered criticism at the same time, questioning the CIA's role instead of the State Department. Pompeo has been nominated as secretary of State, but has yet to be confirmed. “I don’t know why the CIA is doing the pre-work for a diplomatic meeting,” said Sen. MORE (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I don’t hate the idea that there’s some preparation being done for a potential summit," he added. "I was really worried that there’d be no preparatory meetings, and both leaders would be operating from the seat of their pants, and that would be disastrous. So, yeah, it’s a good thing, not a bad thing that both sides are talking.” On Tuesday night, news outlets began reporting that Pompeo secretly traveled to Pyongyang over Easter weekend and met with Kim in advance of a summit Trump has agreed to hold with Kim. On Wednesday, Trump confirmed the meeting took place, saying it went “very smoothly.” “Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea last week,” Trump tweeted. “Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed. Details of Summit are being worked out now. Denuclearization will be a great thing for World, but also for North Korea!” Later on Wednesday, Trump offered praise for Pompeo's work in brief remarks from Florida, and predicted he would be a great secretary of State. The meeting between Pompeo and Kim is the highest-level known U.S.-N... Link to the full article to read more