Part of his calculation for leaving now is that he is trying to get back to the US Embassy in Ashgabat to provide leadership there, the source said.ĭemocrats seek records related to Pompeo's domestic speeches Klimow is also the US ambassador to Turkmenistan and maintained that role while he was at the Office of the Inspector General. Klimow, who took over as acting inspector general in late August, cited the Vacancies Reform Act, which allows officials to serve in an acting capacity for 210 days after a vacancy is declared, as the reason for his departure, a source familiar with the memo told CNN. Pompeo has refused to sit for interviews with the inspector general’s office and bristled when asked publicly about the oversight.
And Pompeo raised the concerns of Navy lawyers in 2018 with a request for military housing that raised “factual, legal, fiscal and ethical issues.” The top US diplomat is also being investigated by the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal investigative agency, for possibly violating a federal law that forbids federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty. Pompeo and his wife have generated a slew of inspector general investigations while at the State Department and the secretary has drawn scrutiny for asking President Donald Trump to fire an inspector general who was looking into his use of taxpayer resources at the oldest US Cabinet agency. The Washington Post first reported Klimow’s departure. His departure is just the latest sign of friction between the top US diplomat and the independent watchdog assigned to look into waste, fraud and abuse at the agency. Klimow is now the third head of the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General to leave early on Pompeo’s watch. The independent watchdog found that the majority of trips by Susan Pompeo over a two-year period had taken place without written approval from the State Department, despite the fact that her trips were considered official travel and paid for by US taxpayers. Klimow announced his departure the same day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s department offered a combative response to an inspector general report on an investigation into travel by the secretary’s wife, Susan.
State Department acting Inspector General Matthew Klimow is leaving his post earlier than expected after just a few months on the job, he told colleagues in a memo, a source at the Office of the Inspector General told CNN on Thursday.
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