FILE PHOTO: U.S. State Department Inspector General Steve Linick departs after briefing House and Senate Intelligence committees at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Wednesday it had rescheduled until later in July a hearing in its investigation of the firing of the State Department’s inspector general, with testimony from a top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Brian Bulatao, the under-secretary of State for management, was to have testified to the committee on Thursday. Bulatao has emerged as a central figure in the removal of Steve Linick as State’s inspector general.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, fired Linick on May 15, the latest in a series of government watchdogs Trump has dismissed. Linick told the foreign affairs panel in an interview that the State Department had discouraged him from investigating arms sales to Saudi Arabia before his removal. In a statement on Wednesday, Democratic Representative Eliot Engel, the committee’s chairman, said the State Department had asked to delay the hearing until it had a chance to review the report on the arms sales, and that he had agreed to hold the hearing later in July.Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Leslie Adler
Waiting for the white house to provide more evidence.....
I am starting to believe that democrats are complicit in Russian chump trumps and the Russian GOPs crimes. Why else would a branch of gov that SAYS ITS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY NOT USE EVERYTHING IN ITS ARSONAL TO WIN THAT FIGHT? Something really stinks in our gov. ALL OF GOV!
The House continues to drag their feet in carrying out oversight.
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They are just going to spread out Trumps incompetence. June was a busy month and he keeps screwing up. I can’t wait to see what July brings.
BidenHarris2020 Putin put the Blood of Dead American Soldiers on GOP & TRUMPs tiny HANDS TrumpKillsUS TRUMP doesn't really care about America, do you? TRUMPs RESPONSIBLE for: 131,000+Covid19 Deaths 47,500,000+Unemployed $175,000,000+for TRUMPs Golf Outings at TRUMPs Hotels
This is totally a desperation play by Democrats. Trump can hire and fire anyone he wishes. It is not the House’s job to investigate everything Trump does. You can stop this in November. Stop voting for Democrats.
probably b/c they realized it was a justifiable shit canning
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