In fact, according to Scott Stedman of Forensic News Net…
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Pompeo’s office in recent days asked State Department HR/IG if they could “discipline” officers for “failure to follow direction” if they cooperate with Congress.
This, I’m told, is PART of the IG’s urgent request to Congress.
New request, or the one we learned about last week? I’m guessing the latter but was Pompeo threatening people before the news broke? I don’t know.
There is written documentation.
State Department staffers were truly shocked by the directive, which the IG denied. It appears that Pompeo is threatening his officers if they comply with Congressional inquiries.
The IG denied Pompeo’s request? Or the IG denied the staffers were shocked? I don’t know.
The IG and HR teams wouldn’t go along with Pompeo’s ask.
For when this is confirmed please credit me as the founder of @forensicnewsnet
The IG for State was appointed by Obama. Not sure about the HR people but the IG and HR are in lockstep against Pompeo’s ask.
Interesting.
It’s as if Trump’s entire administration has stolen a car and is drunk-driving all over the country crashing into barricades and running over the corn and playing death metal at top volume.
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This is amazing. The Secretary of State is trying to punish State Dept. employees who cooperate with a Congressional investigation into allegations that State and DOJ were being used as the president’s personal private eyes to pressure foreign governments into giving him dirt on a political rival.
It’s not enough to impeach Trump. Pompeo and Barr should be impeached, too.
“Pompeo’s office in recent days asked State Department HR/IG if they could “discipline” officers for “failure to follow direction” if they cooperate with Congress.”
He should know the answer to that one off the top of his head. It’s a stone cold “No.”
All these people take these “oaths” to protect and defend the Constitution., but their oaths are worthless, and were so before they were ever taken. An oath is not a meaningless mouthing of words. When people undertake an obligation with no intention of keeping their word, that’s fraud in the world of contracts. It should be actionable to breach a constitutional oath, too.
It is amazing, isn’t it. Dumbfounding. Drunk-driving all over the country and tossing the occasional nuke out the back.
At least like his boss, Pompeo is stupid enough to do a lot of this in the open, where it can be easily seen. Things would be much worse if this lot was evil and clever.
The State Department IG has requested an urgent meeting with congressional committees. They’re meeting today.