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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his request to remove his department’s Inspector General, Steve Linick. Watch Pompeo's remarks in the video player above. “[Inspectors general] just like all of us, serve at the pleasure of the president of the United States. In this case, I recommended to ...
Democrats say that the Friday night firing of State Department's inspector general may be linked to a Saudi arms deal. Representative Eliot Engel, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said today that inspector general Steve Linick was investigating the $7 billion deal. President Trump said that he does ...
... is: I am the state. No Supreme Court has ever agreed with that. Yamiche Alcindor: Well, you are talking about the fact that these removals are unusual. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said that he has no idea what the inspector general at the State Department was looking into.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats say the State Department watchdog fired by President Donald Trump last week was investigating possible impropriety in a massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia last year, adding new questions to the watchdog’s abrupt dismissal. Democrats said Monday that ousted Inspector General Steve Linick was probing ...
... Rex Tillerson's hiring freeze and attempts to streamline the agency by slashing its funding and personnel. Trump has been taking aim lately at inspectors general.In April, he fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, for his role in the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump ...
... complaint. It's about undermining the administration during a national and global crisis. You chose not to elevate your concerns to the Office of the Inspector General, but instead kept selective screen shots that didn't include full context. Yamiche Alcindor: Meanwhile, at the White House, Health and Human Services ...
... thwart detection. The provisions aren't new, but the push to renew them took on added complications this year following a harshly critical Justice Department inspector general report that documented a series of surveillance problems in the FBI's investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. The ...
... and again, that -- Ambassador Sondland. Anybody who faced their responsibility, answered truthfully, and testified openly, retribution. I mean, we saw it with Michael Atkinson, the inspector general at the intelligence, I mean, all of whom got the gate when they didn't do what the president wanted. Judy Woodruff: David ...
... going back... (CROSSTALK) Brett Tolman: Yes. Sorry. Just briefly... Judy Woodruff: Go ahead. (CROSSTALK) Brett Tolman: This same analysis was entirely absent when this same Justice Department determined not to go forward on the prosecution of Andrew McCabe, admittedly having found to have lied by the Office of Inspector General.
... to steer clear of political bias. Also, the nominee to oversee federal pandemic recovery spending, Brian Miller, said he would deliver impartial audits as special inspector general. ... Judy Woodruff: In the day's other news: Wall Street managed another modest rally, as more businesses began reopening. The Dow Jones industrial ...
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