Fired Watchdog Was Looking Into US Arm Sales to Saudi Arabia: Democrats

State Department Inspector General Steve Linick departs after briefing House and Senate Intelligence committees at the US Capitol in Washington on Oct. 2, 2019. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Democrats on Monday said the ousted State Department inspector general was probing arm sales to Saudi Arabia.

“I’ve learned there may be another reason for IG Linick’s firing. His office was investigating—at my request—Trump’s phony emergency declaration so he could send Saudi Arabia weapons,” House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.