The dog is innocent! Its two hog-at-the-trough owners, not so much.
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Yeah, well, until Pompeo the Fat actually pays any legal price for this, the IG report might as well just be a recipe for a PB&J sandwich, that’s how effective and meaningful it is.
They’ve all gotten away with it.
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Kill da whabbit!
It would be good to know if Pompeo pulled this shit with his staff when he was a Congress-critter.
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Also, Pompeo was a congressman. He knows the government rules.
He doesn’t get to ignore them like a Trump. And his wife did not even HAVE A JOB!
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Technically, any conversion of government resources to an employee’s personal use is a violation. Question is whether this is sufficient to trigger more than a slap. One of the things I notice is they were apparently using fairly senior people to do their scut work. So the value of the time taken away from the taxpayers is somewhere up in the thousands, could be over $10K. (And remember that the state department refused to cooperate with its own IG, so the 100+ items here are just what the IG could confirm.)
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I hate Pompeo’s face. Both of them. I also hate his chin. Again, both of them.
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Did Jesus call him to do that, too?
Suffer the little people to do your errands, for of such is the kingdom of God
That Mikey the Psycho-Pomp-eo believes himself to be beyond oversight is not at all surprising.
But let’s take a minute and salve ourselves with a bellylaugh at his futile attempt at a Presidential run and be thankful this stupid fat fuck will most likely never see another office in federal government again.
Pompeo is an arrogant, morbidly obese prick who thinks rules apply to others not him.
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Send him a bill.
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Can we get a list of all the allegations and charges pending against Pompeo? It seemed like every week there was a new accusation of wrongdoing, some of it a lot more serious than dog-sitting. We know he fired (or persuaded Former Guy to fire) at least one previous IG who was onto him. All this corruption has been exhausting, but does TPM keep a running count somewhere?
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I wonder which one was praise worthy, the dog or the christmas cards?
100 documented
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I despise Pompeo. But it should be said that anyone who has served in Congress is accustomed to think that staff is there to cater to their needs and whims. They are so used to it that they don’t realize that the rest of the world sees things differently. Decades ago, Ed Muskie was named Secretary of State, and thought nothing of asking his staff to drive one of his kids to the airport, to go back to college. Soon he read about it in the Washington Post. I worked at a government agency where the newly appointed general counsel had spent many years working for a Senator. He didn’t see anything amiss in directing a secretary to take his little English sports car to the shop for service and to wait there until the work was done. Her reaction was, “hell no, I am a public servant, paid by the taxpayers,” and she requested and got a transfer. (Here’s to you, Darlene, wherever you are!) But the assistant he brought with him from the Hill had no such qualms.
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Actually, if you come out of the world of commerce, you are correct to think that is the norm (from which you came). I spent a good percentage of my career in government service (working at a state university, so subject to all the rules and procedures therein) so get the “don’t use government resources for private ends” but most of these guys (and they’re all guys) came out of the upper levels of private enterprise, so it would make no sense to them to tell them they couldn’t use their private secretary for personal errands. It would be like speaking to them in Greek…
That doesn’t, in any way absolve them of responsibility. I just want to calibrate folks as to their way of thinking, which (as evidence clearly shows) is in absolutely no way aligned with ours…
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Petty corruption is still corruption. These are simply the instances which could be documented. They need to re-imburse the State Department for the salary of a personal assistant.
I’m also sure that this pattern did wonders for morale.
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And let’s remember: when this kind of thing is in service of more efficient government work, it’s fine. That’s why it’s not corruption for pompeo to have a nice car and a driver so he can keep working on the way to and from off-site meetings, or why someone else makes reservations and other arrangements for official travel.
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That I can see but not all the personal stuff.
In agreement. I’m more like “He already got a huge list of perks to make his life easier, but that wasn’t enough for him.”
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