Mike Pompeo disregarded the advice of high-level officials at the State Department, Pentagon and within the intelligence community in invoking an emergency waiver last year to circumvent congressional review of billions of dollars in arms sales to the Gulf
“There is nothing going on right now that we could point to that would say it was any different than the month before,” the former official said.
Pompeo decided to go ahead with the emergency invocation anyway after consulting with then-Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan during an informal breakfast meeting, the former administration official said. Pompeo formally invoked the emergency authority on May 24. The State Department did not respond to a request for comment.
The issue was thrust back into the headlines this week when it was revealed that State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, whom President Donald Trump fired last Friday, wasPompeo reiterated Wednesday that he had asked the president to fire Linick, who was also looking into claims that the secretary and his wife improperly directed political appointees to run personal errands for him, including walking his dog and picking up his dry cleaning.
“I responded to those questions. I don’t know the scope, I don’t know the nature of that investigation, other than what I would have seen from the nature of the questions that I was presented,” Pompeo said. “I did what was right. I don’t know if that investigation is continuing. I don’t know if that investigation has been closed out. I don’t have any sense of that.”
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