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US pays $2M a month to protect Pompeo, aide from Iran threat

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The State Department says it’s paying more than $2 million per month to provide 24-hour security to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a former top aide, both of whom face “serious and credible” threats from Iran. The department told Congress in a report that the cost of protecting Pompeo and former Iran envoy Brian Hook between August 2021 and February 2022 amounted to $13.1 million. The report, dated Feb. 14 and marked “sensitive but unclassified,” was obtained byThe Associated Press on Saturday. Pompeo and Hook led theTrump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran an…

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