Trump Removes the State Department Inspector General
Posted on AllSides May 18th, 2020
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ANALYSIS
President Trump has ousted another inspector general, the fourth IG in the last six weeks. This time, Steve Linick of the State Department was cashiered. The White House says the president has his reasons for no longer having “the fullest confidence” in IG Linick. Perhaps . . . but it is curious how these removals always seem to happen late on Fridays, when administrations do things they’d prefer you didn’t notice.
I am not a fan of the institution of inspector general because it is constitutionally suspect, to say the...
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