State Department inspector general fired as Democrats decry ?dangerous pattern of retaliation?
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Engel (D.-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, claimed the State Inspector General was fired after opening an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said the timing suggested “an unlawful act of retaliation.” The State Department did not explain Linick’s removal or address criticism, and the White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry Friday night.A Democratic congressional aide said that Linick was looking into Pompeo’s "misuse of a political appointee at the Department to perform personal tasks for himself and Mrs. Pompeo.”President Trump said in a Friday letter to Congress that the inspector general no longer had his full confidence and would be removed within 30 days, the required period of advance notice to lawmakers, the Associated Press reported.The firing came weeks after Trump removed Christi Grimm as principal deputy Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, after Grimm’s office criticized the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic — detailing “severe shortages” of testing kits, delays in getting coronavirus results and “widespread shortages” of masks and other equipment at U.S. hospitals.
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