{"id":1824924,"date":"2023-01-26T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824924"},"modified":"2023-01-26T11:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:53:39","slug":"pompeos-mockery-of-hillary-clinton-sparked-retaliation-by-the-inspector-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeos-mockery-of-hillary-clinton-sparked-retaliation-by-the-inspector-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo\u2019s Mockery of Hillary Clinton Sparked Retaliation by the Inspector General"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpompeos-mockery-of-hillary-clinton-sparked-retaliation-by-the-inspector-general%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/100-10-97\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In his new book, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that he believes that too many government inspector generals are too focused on grabbing low-hanging fruits instead of hunting down fraud and crimes.<\/p>\n<p>They \u201cmajor in minors,\u201d He wrote the following in the newly released <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Never-Give-Inch-Fighting-America\/dp\/0063247445\/ref=zg_bs_books_sccl_8\/137-4699665-8722932?psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/mike-pompeo-lists-washingtons-top-10-lazy-nasty-journalists\">POMPEO LISTS TOP 10 &#8216;LAZY&#8217; AND &#8216;NASTY&#8217; WASHINGTON REPORTERS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>And none of the dozens of IG offices throughout the government, he added, was worse than the Department of State\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, a former Trump administration official, that he once asked the office if it would allow him to use a clearly unethical financial plan with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them that my wife flies to foreign countries to give speeches for a fee of $500,000 each, all of it paid for by foreign governments, with the proceeds going to the \u2018Pompeo Foundation.\u2019 Some of the people working for the \u2018Pompeo Foundation\u2019 might well be current department employees. I needed to know if this whole setup caused any ethical problems for me or the department. In deadpan style, I told them I needed a memorandum from them confirming that this activity was lawful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t need an answer, knowing that the ethics department would crush the plan. He was convinced that his IG played politics by their reactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ethics team didn\u2019t get it. What I had described was exactly what Secretary Clinton and her husband had done when she sat on the seventh floor. It\u2019s hard to imagine a more significant conflict of interest or ethical risk than a secretary of state\u2019s spouse sticking a tin cup in front of world leaders while his wife was still in office,\u201d The scorched-earth autobiography of Pompeo, which is a top 10 Amazon bestseller, contains the words of the poet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I let them in on my jest, they didn\u2019t think it was funny. I told them I didn\u2019t think it was funny either. I asked them to produce for me the document that allowed Bill Clinton to take that money for the Clinton Foundation, with which the Clintons paid (or paid off) certain persons to do their bidding,\u201d He also added, but there was no further discussion on any approving memorandum.<\/p>\n<p>But, added Pompeo, there was one reaction from the IG\u2019s office. \u201cFrom that moment forward, the \u2018ethics\u2019 team and the inspector general declared war on me,\u201d He wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo spoke out about leaks from his office that were meant to undermine the department&#8217;s control, and he eventually fired the inspector general.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GET THE INSIDER SCOOP FIRST WITH WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Liberal media attacked the move, claiming it was because the IG was following a career-ending scandal involving Pompeo.<\/p>\n<p>He said however, \u201cThis was nonsense, and it\u2019s worth noting for the record that neither [the fired IG] nor anyone else informed me about his investigations, which, by the way, never found evidence of ethical violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that he believes that too many government inspector generals are too focused on grabbing low-hanging fruits instead of hunting down fraud and crimes. They \u201cmajor in minors,\u201d He wrote the following in the newly released Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1824927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5855,4112,10738,4699,16577,7996,16278],"class_list":["post-1824924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-clinton","tag-hillary","tag-inspector","tag-mockery","tag-pompeos","tag-retaliation","tag-sparked"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}