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The inspector general offering 'urgent' Ukraine briefing called out politicization of Trump's State
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/02/ig-giving-an-urgent-briefing-hill-called-out-politicization-harassment-state-this-summer/
The inspector general offering ‘urgent’ Ukraine briefing called out politicization of Trump’s State Department this summer
By Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix
Oct. 2, 2019 at 10:34 a.m. EDT
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has put up a wall against State Department employees being deposed in the House’s nascent impeachment inquiry of President Trump. But on Wednesday, one key State Department employee is headed to Capitol Hill to share … something.
Exactly what that is, we don’t know. What we do know is State Department Inspector General Steve Linick has requested an “urgent” briefing “to discuss and provide staff with copies of documents related to the State Department and Ukraine.”
Given the apparent potential of that information, it’s worth a look at Linick’s history.
That history, as it happens, includes very recently calling out the alleged politicization of at least one area of the State Department. As The Post’s Karen DeYoung reported in August:
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Stull, it said, referred to some employees as “Obama holdovers,” “traitors,” or “disloyal,” and accused some of being part of the “Deep State” and the “swamp” — terms that President Trump has used to refer to federal employees. All of those so accused, the report said, were career staffers and not political appointees.
Some staffers said Moley accused them of “undermining the President’s agenda,” the report said.
Linick is one of relatively few remaining holdovers from the Obama administration — a fact that will probably lead to accusations of political bias if he produces information that is damaging to the administration. But by law, inspectors general are required to be politically independent.
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The inspector general offering ‘urgent’ Ukraine briefing called out politicization of Trump’s State Department this summer
By Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix
Oct. 2, 2019 at 10:34 a.m. EDT
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has put up a wall against State Department employees being deposed in the House’s nascent impeachment inquiry of President Trump. But on Wednesday, one key State Department employee is headed to Capitol Hill to share … something.
Exactly what that is, we don’t know. What we do know is State Department Inspector General Steve Linick has requested an “urgent” briefing “to discuss and provide staff with copies of documents related to the State Department and Ukraine.”
Given the apparent potential of that information, it’s worth a look at Linick’s history.
That history, as it happens, includes very recently calling out the alleged politicization of at least one area of the State Department. As The Post’s Karen DeYoung reported in August:
A report by the State Department’s inspector general concludes that leadership of a leading department bureau mistreated and harassed staffers, accused them of political disloyalty to the Trump administration, and retaliated against them.
In response to repeated counseling by more senior State officials that he address staff concerns, the report concluded, Kevin Moley, assistant secretary for international affairs, “did not take significant action.”
The report, released Thursday, is a sweeping condemnation of Moley and more specifically of his former senior adviser, Mari Stull. A former lobbyist and consultant for international food and agriculture interests, Stull left the department in January following press reports that, among other things, she had compiled a list of staffers deemed insufficiently loyal to the Trump administration.
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Stull, it said, referred to some employees as “Obama holdovers,” “traitors,” or “disloyal,” and accused some of being part of the “Deep State” and the “swamp” — terms that President Trump has used to refer to federal employees. All of those so accused, the report said, were career staffers and not political appointees.
Some staffers said Moley accused them of “undermining the President’s agenda,” the report said.
Linick is one of relatively few remaining holdovers from the Obama administration — a fact that will probably lead to accusations of political bias if he produces information that is damaging to the administration. But by law, inspectors general are required to be politically independent.
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I didn't see this posted yet?
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She ran that department with courage and honor. Now it's a Trumpy cess pool.
