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Dead Drop: December 8

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REXIT?: A flurry of news reports last week said there was a plan in place for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to leave office – and for CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him. Multiple news organizations said they had the story confirmed by White House sources – only to have the president tweet a day later that the story was “fake news” and that Tillerson was sticking around. But anonymous sources close to the president made clear their disdain for the Secretary of State – and hint that Trump wanted a “Rexit” soon.

SHORT TIMER? If CIA chief Mike Pompeo decamps for Foggy Bottom soon, it will mark a short – though not the shortest — tenure for a director at the Agency. He’ll have to stay at Langley until March 29th to exceed former CIA Director David Petraeus’ tenure. If you count assignments as Director of Central Intelligence (the pre-2005 post that combined running the CIA with the Intelligence Community writ large) Pompeo is already free of the shortest tenure title. The first DCI, Navy Rear Admiral

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