Pompeo’s blistering written attack on Bob Menendez was the second time in recent days that he’s blamed the New Jersey senator for unflattering attention he’s been receiving following his push to fire the State Department’s inspector general
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused a top Democrat of “hackery” over his public questioning of whether the chief U.S. diplomat had violated regulations governing American officials’ political activity.
“It is no surprise that you and I hold differing visions for America’s foreign policy mission,” Pompeo told Menendez in a letter dated Thursday. “But, for you and your staff to continue to address these different views by conducting character assassination attempts against me and my team … is not honorable or worthy of the trust Americans have placed in you.”
Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had written to the OSC in October and December requesting a review of Pompeo’s trips. In recent days, Menendez isSen. Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo “The OSC response to your hackery makes clear your continued effort to politicize legitimate and important diplomatic and national security activity was without merit,” Pompeo wrote. “The scurrilous allegations you put forward had the additional effect — one which you clearly intended when you publicized your letter to the OSC — of generating a continuing series of media articles and reports with rumors, innuendo and flat untruths about me and the U.S. Department of State.
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