Senior State Department, Pentagon, and intelligence officials reportedly warned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against skirting Congress and selling $8 billion worth in weaponry to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by declaring a state of emergency.
The stink from this would knock a vulture off a garbage scow.
The secretary of state has denied that Linick was fired out of retaliation, claiming that even though he had submitted written responses to Linick in the inspector general’s probe, he was unaware of the subject of the investigation.
If you’re going to lie to us, at least make it a plausible lie. It’s like they are not even trying.
The first sentence in the third graf needs editing.
Having knowledge of an investigation is binary: you are either aware of it, or unaware of it. Pompeo claiming that he was unaware of the subject of the investigation he provided written answers for doesn’t change the fact that he was obviously aware of a current investigation (which most certainly pissed him off). So he’s using word semantics to advance a clumsy lie.
And, to burst the weak balloon of semi-plausibility he’s trying to construct around his actions, the Secretary would have certainly been able to ascertain the subject of the investigation simply through the questions which were submitted to him. He’s one of the worst liars in this administration, both in frequency and execution.
It sure does. It says exactly the opposite of what is meant.
He and the Trump administration did it anyway.
Why shouldn’t they? There are no repercussions for doing so. Right #MM?
Invoke emergency powers = line Trump family’s pockets
“skirting Congress…” This isn’t the NYT where genteel words are used so as not to offend with the stark truth. How about “Illegally cutting Congress out of its role…”
And the icing on the cake is he’s an obnoxiously arrogant jackass when questioned about it. He always seems astonished that anyone would dare, and makes some rude, dismissive crack without answering.
“I’ve seen the various stories that someone was walking my dog to sell arms to my dry cleaner. I mean, it’s all just crazy, crazy stuff,” Pompeo told reporters.
I like how he combines three illegal actions then dismisses them as a joke. But no one has actually said that. Classic straw man.
A fish rots from the head down.
This. What the law says doesn’t matter to these guys anymore. They’ll do whatever they want, because no one will dare say anything about it.
Oh yeah? What about Uranium One, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Ben Ghazi?
Hunter Biden!!!
One might even say that it doesn’t not need editing.
Seems that each revelation is making the stink stronger and stronger. Jared is mixed up in the Saudi mess somewhere and it is only a matter of time until that comes out. The fun is just beginning. I expect big time distractions are coming, especially as we get closer to the election. This is going to end up right on tRUnip’s doorstep.
Well, color me shocked and surprised to learn that there’s skullduggery behind this…
Pompeo’s future does not look so bright!
Someone forgot to delete the “not” not.
