After fewer than three months on the job, the State Department's acting inspector general has resigned in another major shake-up of the watchdog office, ABC News has confirmed.
Stephen Akard, a longtime aide to Vice President Mike Pence, became acting IG in May after Steve Linick, a career civil servant, was fired. A Trump appointee, Akard had been serving as director of the Office of Foreign Missions. After becoming acting IG, Akard said he would"not exercise the authorities or duties" of director and would recuse himself from any investigation involving the Office of Foreign Missions,"matters I worked on, in a substantive way," and individuals he knows personally.
Mike Pompeo will be held accountable once Donald Trump is out of office. Trump's goons will do anything to not be held accountable for their corruption. America's check & balance system has failed completely. If nothing is done about this, we will wake up under a Dictatorship.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had the previous inspector general fired in May, calling him a 'bad actor' amid probes into Pompeo and other department leaders.
The Insepctor General was investigating Pompeo and other senior officials for use of an emergency authority to bypass Congress and sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Pompeo and his wife's use of staff to run personal errands.
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