{"id":32604,"date":"2020-05-18T20:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/saudi-arms-sale-was-a-second-area-of-investigation-for-fired-state-department-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:21:34","slug":"saudi-arms-sale-was-a-second-area-of-investigation-for-fired-state-department-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/saudi-arms-sale-was-a-second-area-of-investigation-for-fired-state-department-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi arms sale was a second area of investigation for fired State Department watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s decision to greenlight arms sales to Saudi Arabia against the will of Congress when he was abruptly removed from his post, congressional officials tell NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The probe into the Saudi arms sale is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/fired-state-department-watchdog-was-looking-whether-pompeo-made-staffer-n1208981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second known investigation<\/a> into Pompeo\u2019s activities that Linick is known to have been pursuing when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-fires-state-department-watchdog-n1208476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he was fired<\/a> by President Donald Trump on Friday evening, in a letter to Congress explaining that the administration no longer had confidence in Linick. The inspector general was also looking into allegations Pompeo enlisted a political appointee to perform personal chores like picking up dry cleaning, NBC News previously reported.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div data-test=\"video-player\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/democrats-investigating-firing-of-state-department-inspector-general-83592773624\"><\/p>\n<div data-vilynx-audiopolicycta=\"true\" data-vilynx-id=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/democrats-investigating-firing-of-state-department-inspector-general-83592773624\"><picture class=\"\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1240px)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(min-width: 758px)\" ><\/source><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media14.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Video\/202005\/tdy_news_welker_state_department_200518_1920x1080.focal-760x428.jpg\"><\/img><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Three officials from different congressional committees say investigators on Capitol Hill believe that Linick\u2019s investigations into the Saudi arms sale and Pompeo\u2019s use of the political aide contributed to his firing. A White House official has said that Pompeo recommended to Trump that Linick be fired, and that Trump agreed.<\/p>\n<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., confirmed Monday that Linick was looking into the Saudi arms deal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"emailSignup\">\n<p>Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHis office was investigating \u2014 at my request \u2014 Trump\u2019s phony declaration of an emergency so he could send weapons to Saudi Arabia,\u201d Engel said in a statement. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the full picture yet, but it\u2019s troubling that Secretary Pompeo wanted Mr. Linick pushed out before this work could be completed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Engel urged the Trump administration to comply with a request for related records jointly issued late last week by Engel\u2019s committee and by Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department and Pompeo\u2019s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. But in brief excerpts from a forthcoming interview with The Washington Post, posted by the reporter to Twitter, Pompeo said the inspector general \u201cwasn&#8217;t performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to&#8221; and was &#8220;trying to undermine what it was that we were trying to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump in May 2019 issued an emergency declaration, using Iran concerns as the basis, that allowed the administration to sell billions in arms to the Saudis despite opposition from both parties in Congress following atrocities in Riyadh&#8217;s military effort in Yemen, the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and other concerns about Saudi Arabia. The total for that tranche of sales to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates was about $8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>That emergency declaration enabled Pompeo to expedite the arms to the Saudis without the typical congressional notification process, in which Congress has a window to block proposed foreign military sales that it opposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s action will quickly augment our partners\u2019 capacity to provide for their own self-defense and reinforce recent changes to U.S. posture in the region to deter Iran,\u201d Pompeo said in a May 24 statement announcing the emergency notification.<\/p>\n<p>But lawmakers from both parties have maintained there was no legitimate emergency to justify sidestepping Congress by authorizing the arms sale, arguing that it\u2019s unclear how the weapons could even help Saudi Arabia defend itself against Iran, which has long preferred asymmetric warfare and use of proxy groups to actual military-to-military conflict with its enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Linick\u2019s firing has prompted bipartisan concern on Capitol Hill, with Democrats calling it clear retaliation and many Republicans taking the milder approach of saying that the administration has failed to offer a specific rationale for why he was removed. One Republican who has frequently sparred with Trump, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, called Linick\u2019s removal &#8220;a threat to accountable democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Linick was also investigating whether Pompeo made the political appointee walk his dog and make dinner reservations for him and his wife, among other personal errands, congressional officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House made clear over the weekend that President Trump and his aides wanted the State Department, not the White House, to handle the fallout from the firing of the inspector general, a White House official said. And officials have taken note that the effort to contain the fallout has been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Routine ethics briefings for State Department officials include the admonition that they may not enlist people who report directly to them to perform personal errands, a current and a former State Department official said. Federal regulations also say an employee \u201cshall not encourage, direct, coerce, or request a subordinate to use official time to perform activities other than those required in the performance of official duties or authorized in accordance with law or regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span data-test=\"article-byline__headshot\"><picture class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image: Josh Lederman\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2020_02\/3181686\/josh-lederman-circle-byline-template_a21a0ba258dbfd8adabff00a2baa7e71.focal-100x100.jpg\"><\/img><\/picture><\/span><span>Josh Lederman<\/span><span data-test=\"article-byline__social\"><a href=\"mailto:Josh.lederman@nbcuni.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Josh Lederman is a national political reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span data-test=\"article-byline__headshot\"><picture class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrea Mitchell\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2018_03\/2300566\/andrea_mitchell1_09f60472bdd4227431dfc0464ace49fa.focal-100x100.jpg\"><\/img><\/picture><\/span><span>Andrea Mitchell<\/span><span data-test=\"article-byline__social\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchellreports\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Mitchell, NBC News&#8217; chief foreign affairs correspondent, is the host of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrea.msnbc.com\/\">&#8220;Andrea Mitchell Reports,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0an hour of political news and interviews with top newsmakers on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span data-test=\"article-byline__img\"><\/span><span>Haley Talbot<\/span><span data-test=\"article-byline__social\"><a href=\"mailto:Haley.Talbot@nbcuni.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Haley Talbot is an associate producer in the NBC News Washington bureau.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Abigail Williams , Carol E. Lee and Kristen Welker<\/p>\n<p>contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/saudi-arms-sale-was-second-area-investigation-fired-state-department-n1209521\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s decision to greenlight arms sales to Saudi Arabia against the will of Congress when he was abruptly removed from his post, congressional officials tell NBC News.The probe into the Saudi arms sale is the second known investigation into Pompeo\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4173,658],"class_list":{"0":"post-32604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-saudi","9":"tag-second"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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