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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust fired IG had opened an investigation into *Secretary Pompeo* who recommended he be fired
: I have learned that the Office of the Inspector General had opened an investigation into Sec. Pompeo. Mr. Linicks firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation.
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"This firing is the outrageous act of a President trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the Secretary of State, from accountability," said Engel, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, in a statement.
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elleng
(131,223 posts)It will take centuries to 'close' and clean all the crap from this 'administration.'
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)Poiuyt
(18,131 posts)This is what fascism looks like
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Link to tweet
Vadem
(2,596 posts)musette_sf
(10,206 posts)seriously, these fucks make the Nixon administration and the Watergate felons look like a bunch of choir boys
denem
(11,045 posts)Nixon executed the Saturday Night Massacre knowing full well it would backfire big time. He was desperate. But if Nixon had had a Bill Barr, the locked support of the GOP senate and a media operation like FNC, who knows what he would have stopped at, if anything.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Link to tweet
procon
(15,805 posts)They don't even bother to hide it because they believe their all untouchable. It's true, between Trump, his corrupt AG, his partisan judges, his craven cabinet and the insipid congress, they have nothing to fear.
Cha
(297,818 posts)Absolutely, yes. I commit, Biden responded, adding: Its hands-off completely. Look, the attorney general of the United States is not the presidents lawyer. Its the peoples lawyer.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/biden-promises-no-pardon-for-trump.html
oasis
(49,430 posts)while Biden rolls up his sleeves and gets to work on the infrastructure .
AZ8theist
(5,515 posts)sop
(10,274 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Or you can actually do something about it...
Your call.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Im so sick of this corruption.
MontanaMama
(23,359 posts)seriously. Oversight has disappeared. Meanwhile Mrs. Andrea Greenspan was giving credence to Obamagate today. Good gawd.
MerryBlooms
(11,773 posts)he's above the law and so is anyone in his favored circle. I don't care who gets on the House floor or the Senate floor and say's no one's above the law, it's clear that is complete bullshit.
sop
(10,274 posts)after receiving early warnings during the initial COVID-19 Senate briefings. Senator Burr (R-NC) was forced to resign as chairman of the (IC) Senate Intelligence Committee because of the FBI's ongoing insider trading investigation.
From all accounts, Senator Burr was targeted by AG Barr and the FBI for having the temerity to investigate Russia's involvement in the 2016 election, and looking into whether Putin helped Trump win the presidency. Trump was extremely unhappy about Burr's IC oversight, seeing it as personal disloyalty to him.
Senator Burr (and Senator Warner, D-Va) just released their committee report at the end of April, stating:
The Committee found no reason to dispute the Intelligence Communitys conclusions...One of the ICAs most important conclusions was that Russias aggressive interference efforts should be considered the new normal. That warning has been borne out by the events of the last three years, as Russia and its imitators increasingly use information warfare to sow societal chaos and discord. With the 2020 presidential election approaching, its more important than ever that we remain vigilant against the threat of interference from hostile foreign actors."
https://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/senate-intel-releases-new-report-on-intel-community-assessment-of-russian-interference
Clearly, Trump ordered Bill Barr to investigate Senatot Burr for stock trading improprieties because Burr's Senate IC was looking into Russian influence during the 2016 election. Trump - the vindictive and corrupt POS - just got rid of someone else for doing required government oversight.
MerryBlooms
(11,773 posts)progressoid
(50,000 posts)And???
Cha
(297,818 posts)IcyPeas
(21,916 posts)I think his goal really is to jail Hillary, Obama and Biden. And probably others.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,499 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,337 posts)OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)This is water off Trump's back, but the likes of Pompeo has already been hopes, as a mere lackey mortal.... remember he already had to pull out of a senate run. There's an opportunity here.
DFW
(54,448 posts)"A senior State official confirmed that Pompeo made the recommendation that Linick be removed, but the official did not know the reasons why."
Linick's testimony might have put Pompeo behind bars (still might, for that matter). How's THAT for a "reason why?"
spanone
(135,902 posts)Of our nation's lifetime.