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Reps. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform along with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations announced Friday that their committees will widen a probe into the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.<\/p>\n

The bicameral group said they plan to conduct interviews with key officials who may have knowledge about the IGs firing and how the State Department Office of Inspector Generals (OIG) ongoing investigations may have prompted Secretary Pompeos decision to have him fired.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, the ranking members said they want to be sure that Secretary of State, Mike Pompeos decision to fire the IG, was not prompted by Linicks investigation into the Secretarys work at the State Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress has demanded answers about the abrupt firing of the Inspector General, but Secretary Pompeo has failed to explain his actions. We call upon administration officials to comply and appear for interviews with the Committees, and for Secretary Pompeo to comply with the Committees investigation and not obstruct the American people from discovering the truth about his own actions,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs these interviews take place, we plan to make public the transcripts of those proceedings as quickly as possible. The truth about Mr. Linicks firing will come out,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

Engel, Maloney, and Menendez are not the only lawmakers who have asked the Trump administration for justification of his decision to fire the IG.<\/p>\n

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has expressed dissatisfaction with a White House response to his concerns over the rationale for the Presidents firing of the inspector general.<\/p>\n

In a May 26 statement<\/a>, Grassley acknowledged Trumps \u201cconstitutional and statutory authority\u201d in dismissing the inspectors general for the State Department and Intelligence Community but noted that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone failed to provide sufficient justification for the firing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White House Counsels response failed to address this requirement, which Congress clearly stated in statute and accompanying reports. I dont dispute the presidents authority under the Constitution, but without sufficient explanation, its fair to question the presidents rationale for removing an inspector general,\u201d Grassley said.<\/p>\n

Grassley said that without providing a solid justification for the dismissals, \u201cthe AmericRead More From Source<\/a>
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