Engel Says Inspector General Was Probing Pompeo

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Post that the State Department Inspector General was fired after opening an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said the timing suggested “an unlawful act of retaliation.”

A Democratic congressional aide said that Steve Linick was looking into Pompeo’s “misuse of a political appointee at the Department to perform personal tasks for himself and Mrs. Pompeo.”