{"id":1467531,"date":"2022-05-07T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467531"},"modified":"2022-05-07T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:59:49","slug":"mike-pompeo-warns-senate-candidate-dr-oz-could-be-national-security-threat-over-turkish-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pompeo-warns-senate-candidate-dr-oz-could-be-national-security-threat-over-turkish-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo Warns Senate Candidate Dr. Oz Could Be National Security Threat Over Turkish Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-pompeo-warns-senate-candidate-dr-oz-could-be-national-security-threat-over-turkish-ties%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467531&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/MPompeo.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e1nzmkc90 css-1s0j25g\">\n<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned during a Friday press briefing that Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz was a potential national security threat due to his ties with his native country of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo\u2019s remarks come after ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dr-oz-accused-of-violating-foreign-agent-law-photo-emerges-of-him-voting-in-recent-turkish-elections\">reported<\/a> this week on a photograph that showed Oz voting in Turkish elections as recently as 2018. Oz was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dr-oz-accused-of-violating-foreign-agent-law-photo-emerges-of-him-voting-in-recent-turkish-elections\">accused<\/a> this week of violating \u00a0the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by not registering as a foreign agent while he was doing work for Turkish Airlines, which is\u00a049.12%\u00a0owned by the Turkish\u00a0government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe criticize American candidates all the time because they didn\u2019t vote. This is different from that,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cNot only did he not engage in the American [process] but he engaged in the Turkish political process. That raises in my mind a lot of judgments about his priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it\u2019s all innocent, maybe it\u2019s all straight up, but we and the people of Pennsylvania and the Americans who he will be representing as one of 100 members of the US Senate voting on important national security matters need to understand the scope and depth of his relationship with the Turkish government,\u201d he continued.\u00a0\u201cI was involved in the process which adjudicated efforts to receive national security information \u2014 the clearance process inside the United States. And precisely the things that we have seen reported are the kinds of things that those who are making those judgments about whether to provide that sensitive American information \u2014 to government officials or to private citizens, to contractors are working on behalf of the American government \u2014 these are precisely the kinds of questions they would ask in making such a determination and they get answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo added that the questions were usually asked during a polygraph exam.<\/p>\n<p>Oz\u2019s campaign responded by claiming that the remarks from Pompeo, who also previously served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), were \u201cpathetic and xenophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/04\/dr-oz-accused-of-violating-foreign-agent-law-with-work-for-turkish-airlines\/\">letter<\/a> this week from Armenian National Committee of America Executive Director Aram Hamparian to Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, urged the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into whether Oz violated FARA.<\/p>\n<p>David Laufman, who oversaw the Justice Department\u2019s FARA enforcement from 2014 to 2018, said that he believes that it \u201cwould be appropriate for [the Justice Department] to undertake logical, analytical and investigative steps to determine whether Dr. Oz acted as a public relations counsel or publicity agent in the United States on behalf of Turkish Airlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned during a Friday press briefing that Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz was a potential national security threat due to his ties with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1481978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}