House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) put forth on Monday a different reason why President Donald Trump may have fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick last week, beyond the watchdog’s investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s alleged misuse of staff.
So, Saudi nationals were going to walk Pompeo’s dog directly into the side of a large and very tall building?
Have I got that right?
I said it had to be something more serious than dog-walking and picking up laundry (which we had already heard about).
What an effing surprise. NOT!
Yeah, except that you forgot the part about the bone saw.
Hate to say and not to say that this story is untrue, I just wondered if this is issue is bubbling up because the obvious more appealing story to the average american people would be Pompeo and his wife using tax dollars and a government workers time to do personal errands. The fact that this congressman is from NY makes me wonder if info was pushed towards this guy just so that he would put out a press release in regards to this story which has a policy disagreement that is firmly a state department issue and WH issue, where as the personal errands are only for selfish interest and don’t have anything to do with why Sec State Pompeo has a job at the top of the State Dept.
" Foreign Affairs Dem Points To Saudi Arms Sale As Possible Reason For IG’s Ouster"
Few folks may be a little pissed off here.
Josh keeps tweeting the IG was pushed out so Cockholster Crime Co. can steal even more money from the government.
You just know there were kickbacks to Toadglans and Boy Wonder on this arms deal.
Just when you thought that they could not possibly descend further into corruption, this maladministration surprises you by plummeting even further to new depths. When do they finally implode? November? Never?
And that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi Arabian nationals. How quickly the GOP tends to forget shit the rest of us tend to remember quite vividly. Friends? Yeah, I don’t think so. Maybe Jared’s new-found friend, but that’s about it.
You made a funny!
And Lord knows I needed it.
Impeach again?
“[investigating] Trump’s phony declaration of an emergency so he could send weapons to Saudi Arabia.”
Um, this guy pushed the issue to the IG to investigate in the first place.
I believe Trumplethinskin should be impeached again, immediately following the election, regardless of the outcome. I think Nancy should have the paperwork all lined up and ready to go. Let a lame duck House indict. Let the asshole be stained with TWO impeachments inside TWO years.
Put that on your CV, Donnie-boy.
History will spackle over our Trump experience with excrement.
If it was only a policy difference, DT wouldn’t have had to declare an emergency to make the sale without the approval of congress.
In addition, the dog was going to be really (Mr. Creosote) full.
So since the IG is not actually fired yet, can he dump what he has on Pompeo to Eliott Engel before he goes?
Uh-huh. This is a “policy disagreement” in much the same way as Iran-Contra was a “policy disagreement”. When “policy disagreements” involve the State Department and the White House breaking laws that prevent the implementation of policies that Congress has explicitly prohibited, that’s not a “policy difference”; it’s a criminal conspiracy.
I’m wondering about impeaching someone not Trump to drive a wedge between their best interests and Trump’s. Set them against each other like Reservoir Dogs.
And at a time when no one was able to fly, the Bush administration’s first order of business was making sure over a hundred Saudis were safely evacuated from the US, including two dozen Bin Laden family members.
You mean like perhaps maybe possibly could-we-please impeach Billy disBarr? 
Agreed. And I think the IRAN-CONTRA affair is apt here because as you point out, policy is one thing, breaking the law or subverting it’s intent is squarely in the interest of the judicial branch. In the past case Pres Reagan relied on “I do not recall”, one of those great phrases lawyers come up with for their clients. It is repugnant what that administration did in that case, and Reagan and his team made Ollie North take it all on the chin (of course with him moving in the same GOP circles after this with Fox News and then the NRA). Nothing says you care about soldier like throwing them under the bus so they can take your crimes.
Just another example of the Myth that the GOP uses against it’s followers to keep them in the dark that unlike the Democrats, they really could give two craps about their fellow Americans, it is all about consolidating power and having zero accountability, while at the same time selling your base on the hatred of government while they in fact control the levers and continue to run for said government. The Gaslighting continues.