WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul vowed to do whatever possible to block President Trump’s nominees to head up the State Department and the CIA from securing Senate confirmation.

The Kentucky Republican has previously said he’d oppose CIA Director Mike Pompeo moving over to Secretary of State and his deputy Gina Haspel from becoming the first female director of the CIA.

“I will do whatever it takes, and that includes filibuster,” Paul told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “I will try to make a point to the American people.”

Paul, whose talk-a-than on the Senate floor forced a government shutdown in February, characterized Pompeo as a war-monger more interested in regime change than diplomacy.

“I don’t think you really want people who are eager for war to be running the State Department. You want a diplomat. I, frankly, think that Pompeo’s positions are too much of an advocate for regime change, really everywhere, North Korea, Iran, Russia, you name it,” Paul said.

Paul blasted Haspel for her connection to controversial interrogation techniques used by the CIA under President George W. Bush after 9/11.

“It’s just inconsistent with who we are as a people to have someone run our spy agency that has all this enormous power who was intimately involved with torture and, from everything we’re reading, was supportive of the policy,” Paul said.

ProPublica retracted a news story last week that said Haspel oversaw a secret “black site” prison in Thailand in 2002 where Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader, was waterboarded. Haspel was chief of the CIA base, but not until late 2002 after the torture of Zubaydah had ended, the website said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, however, called Paul an “outlier” in the GOP-led Senate and believes Pompeo “will be confirmed.”

As for Haspel, Graham said she is “highly qualified” and she’ll have to state publicly that waterboarding now is clearly illegal.

“I’m looking for her to acknowledge that this behavior is no longer allowed and that she will adhere to the law as it exists,” Graham said.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has already raised concerns about Haspel’s nomination and said she needs a firm vetting about her involvement in the torture of detainees.

“Ms. Haspel needs to explain the nature and extent of her involvement in the CIA’s interrogation program during the confirmation process,” McCain, a former POW, said in a statement last week.