Reps. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform along with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations announced Friday that their committees’ will widen a probe into the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
The bicameral group said they plan to conduct interviews with key officials who may have knowledge about the IG’s firing and how the State Department Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) ongoing investigations may have prompted Secretary Pompeo’s decision to have him fired.
