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Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog, pick up his dry cleaning and make dinner reservations?
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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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Re: Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog, pick up his dry cleaning and make dinner reservations? - by Ted King - 05-18-2020, 05:13 PM

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