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Geoff Bennett (NBCNews White House Correspondent by way of @NPR)
NEWS: The State Department IG removed from his job Friday was looking into whether Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog, pick up his dry cleaning and make dinner reservations for Pompeo and his wife, among others personal errands, sources tell
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His wife had an office while he ran the CIA. Supposedly for employee morale. That raised a lot of eyebrows as well.
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....Trump just attracts the lowest of the low people.....
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I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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Kind of minor (inapproriate, but minor) stuff. But now, instead of realizing he just needs to knock this stuff off, he’s established a precedent that if anyone questions even minor inappropriate stuff a department leader feels he can take as a perk, that leader can run to the boss and get someone fired for it.
That’s no way to run a tight ship.
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That's like the stuff that got the other cabinet members fired.
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"Ousted State Dept. watchdog was probing Trump's Saudi arms sales":
https://thehill.com/policy/international...arms-sales
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said Monday the IG's firing may also be tied to an investigation into the administration's Saudi arms sale.
“I have learned that there may be another reason for Mr. Linick’s firing. His office was investigating—at my request—Trump’s phony declaration of an emergency so he could send weapons to Saudi Arabia,” Engel wrote in a statement obtained by The Hill.
“We don’t have the full picture yet, but it’s troubling that Secretary Pompeo wanted Mr. Linick pushed out before this work could be completed.”
Trump in May 2019 issued an emergency declaration that bypassed congressional authorization to sell up to $8 billion of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, with Pompeo saying at the time the move was necessary to "deter Iranian aggression."
Congress had delayed approving the arms sales at the time because it was occurring in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Kashaoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Ted King wrote:
"Ousted State Dept. watchdog was probing Trump's Saudi arms sales":
Ah. Well, that's a wee bit more concerning.
Maybe the "he made me walk his dog" story was just cover.
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Dont they have any kids or relatives they could con?
