Engel Says Pompeo Hasn’t Been Cooperating With Impeachment Inquiry

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) speaks during a news conference discussing Russian sanctions on February 15, 2017. (Photo credit: ZACH GIBSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Eliot Engel (D-NY) said on Sunday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hasn’t been cooperating with House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

CBS’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked Engel, whose committee is one of the three House committees leading the impeachment inquiry, about Pompeo’s attitude toward the inquiry after he ignored the deadline for the committees’ subpoena on Friday.

“Well, he’s not complying with the inquiry so far,” the Democratic lawmaker responded, adding that discussions are “ongoing.”

“We’re hoping that he will comply,” Engel said.

On Saturday, Pompeo told reporters that the State Department had sent a letter to Congress on Friday night in response to the subpoena.

“We will obviously do all the things we are required to do by law,” he said, without explaining what the letter said.

Last week, Pompeo wrote a defiant letter to the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight committee telling them that he would not allow State Department employees to testify in the impeachment inquiry.

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  1. Avatar for sooner sooner says:

    Pompeo is just resting up after putting the squeeze on Luxembourg. That and threatening State department employees with the Khashoggi treatment are sucking up all of his waking hours.

  2. “We will do what is required by law, except anything that will help your investigation” sounds more like what you’d expect Pompeo’s letter to say. They really are playing with fire here, ignoring Congressional subpoenas looks a lot worse for them as some State employees come out and testify, every bit of new information has been damaging to Trump and makes Pompeo and State look bad for enabling illegal behavior. That kind of thing won’t go over well with the public, sentiment has changed because of the appearance of a cover up, and this just makes it look more and more like they are hiding things. Guilty people do cover ups, and, as is historically the case, the cover up is what is bringing Trump and his minions down now.

  3. Pompeo is the worst SoS in US history—and the most corrupt.

  4. “We’re hoping that he will comply.”

    If my Dad were alive, he’d go straight to “A lot of people in hell would like ice water, but they ain’t gonna get it.”

  5. Nixon’s people did a lot of stonewalling too. And behind stone walls is where a lot of them ended up.

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