In Kim story, a likely ratings boost for diplomatic repairman designee Pompeo

Ears perked up at the State Department last week when CIA Director Mike Pompeo, President Trump’s pick to become secretary of State, told senators at his confirmation hearing that “You will seldom find me ensconced on the senior level of any building.”

For a year, Mr. Trump’s short-lived first secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, isolated himself on the State Department’s storied seventh floor to pursue a slash-and-burn department reorganization. So the implication of a boss who would roll up his sleeves and consult – even value – the rank and file was music to a good many diplomats’ ears.

But Mr. Pompeo is not out of the woods – or assured of becoming the nation’s top diplomat – just yet.

With one Republican and a rising number of Democrats on the Senate Foreign