Enlarge / Representative Michael “Mike” Pompeo, during an interview in 2013. Pompeo won an election for the first time in 2010 following a career as an army officer, tax lawyer, aerospace entrepreneur, and Republican National Committee member. Photographer: Julia Schmalz/Bloomberg via Getty Images

President-elect Donald J. Trump has made three key national security picks this morning, tapping Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as Attorney General, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn as his security adviser.

Pompeo, the 52-year-old conservative Congressman, is a surprise choice, but he agrees with Trump on key issues. Just yesterday he tweeted his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, saying that he looked forward to “rolling back this disastrous deal with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.”

Pompeo joined Congress in 2010, coming in as part of a wave of Republicans affiliated with the Tea Party movement. Before his political career, Pompeo worked as a lawyer and founded an aerospace company.