Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's push to fire the inspector general reportedly looking into his actions at the oldest US Cabinet agency has refocused scrutiny of the top US diplomat's transparency record after just over two years in the job
Ethics watchdogs say Pompeo, who came to prominence in Congress through his dogged pursuit of Hillary Clinton's State Department after the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, has not practiced what he preached before taking the secretary of state job.
A classified briefing to Congress from Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, CIA Director Gina Haspel and then-acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire left lawmakers on both sides of the aisle frustrated and dissatisfied. "There was no specific information given to us of a specific attack. Generality -- stuff that you read in the newspaper.
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