Just last week, President Trump canned the State Department IG. The exact reason isn't known but it was insinuated that the IG was about to break a big case involving Mike Pompeo asking a member of his personal staff, also a political appointee, to pick up his laundry and walk his dog.
Yesterday, NBC News, which could never raise itself from its perpetual position of having its corporate lips firmly attached to Hillary Clinton's more than ample, one could say Stacey-Abrams-esque derrière, ran a hit piece on Pompeo's "Madison Dinners." This is a program of dinners that Pompeo hosts for foreign officials, members of Congress, and leaders in business and industry.
Steve Linick, who was abruptly fired Friday evening as the State Department's inspector general, was investigating whether Pompeo made a political appointee carry out personal errands like walking his dog, NBC News reported.
The manner in which Pompeo has carried out the dinner series has raised concerns for State Department officials on multiple fronts, including the use of taxpayer dollars and the involvement of his wife.
Susan Pompeo, who isn't a government official, was also known to play an active role when Pompeo was CIA director, and although he has called her a "Force multiplier," her presence on official State Department trips has raised questions before.
The concerns are that a) the State Department bureaucracy, which seems implacably opposed to Pompeo, is cut out of the planning, b) that Pompeo is making contacts that he may be able to use to further his political ambitions, and c) that his wife is too involved.
First, the State Department IG had a personal focus on discrediting Pompeo and because nothing really important was wrong, he had to invent dog-walking and the role of Susan Pompeo in planning dinners.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/05/21/nbc-never-had-a-problem-with-hillary-clintons-pay-to-play-state-department-but-with-mike-pompeo-different-rules-apply/
Yesterday, NBC News, which could never raise itself from its perpetual position of having its corporate lips firmly attached to Hillary Clinton's more than ample, one could say Stacey-Abrams-esque derrière, ran a hit piece on Pompeo's "Madison Dinners." This is a program of dinners that Pompeo hosts for foreign officials, members of Congress, and leaders in business and industry.
Steve Linick, who was abruptly fired Friday evening as the State Department's inspector general, was investigating whether Pompeo made a political appointee carry out personal errands like walking his dog, NBC News reported.
The manner in which Pompeo has carried out the dinner series has raised concerns for State Department officials on multiple fronts, including the use of taxpayer dollars and the involvement of his wife.
Susan Pompeo, who isn't a government official, was also known to play an active role when Pompeo was CIA director, and although he has called her a "Force multiplier," her presence on official State Department trips has raised questions before.
The concerns are that a) the State Department bureaucracy, which seems implacably opposed to Pompeo, is cut out of the planning, b) that Pompeo is making contacts that he may be able to use to further his political ambitions, and c) that his wife is too involved.
First, the State Department IG had a personal focus on discrediting Pompeo and because nothing really important was wrong, he had to invent dog-walking and the role of Susan Pompeo in planning dinners.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/05/21/nbc-never-had-a-problem-with-hillary-clintons-pay-to-play-state-department-but-with-mike-pompeo-different-rules-apply/
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