Democrats release a transcript of fired IG's interview as State Dept. accuses him of leaks, requests a new probe.
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In a closed door interview with lawmakers, Linick confirmed his office was investigating Pompeo's use of an emergency declaration to sell $8 billion of arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- argued it was not about the decision itself, but the legality of how it was implemented. But Linick testified last week that he requested CIGIE to do the investigation first and the office said no. Instead, the DOD OIG was the third inspector general office that he asked, and in a report concluded in March, it found"no evidence that any DOS OIG personnel emailed or discussed any details of the evaluation report with the authors of 'The Daily Beast' article or other members of the media.
"I would have been happy if they could have done it as well. So it didn't matter to me. I just wanted an independent review of our office. I went to CIGIE -- and then I went to other IGs to get this done," he told lawmakers last week."I went to the CIGIE. They told me that they wouldn't do the review and that I needed to go find somebody else."
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