Pompeo is trying to bully the impeachment hearings:

Secretary of state Mike Pompeo has written to the House foreign affairs committee chairman, New York Democrat Eliot Engel, vowing to prevent attempts to “intimidate, bully, and treat improperly” current and former members of the state department into testifying in relation to the impeachment inquiry.

In the letter, Pompeo said he would work to expose what he called any attempts to intimidate employees, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Pompeo said he is “concerned with aspects of the Committee’s request that can be understood only as an attempt to intimidate, bully, & treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the Department of State, including several career [foreign-service officers].”

He works for Trump. Does he notice any attempts to intimidate, bully, & treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the Congress or the press?

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Pompeo says he won’t tolerate “tactics” of Dems in Congress seeking testimony from officials

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo continued his broadside against congressional committee chairman Eliot Engel, in his letter today.

Pompeo said that requested dates for officials voluntarily to appear on Capitol Hill for depositions related to the Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry were “not feasible.”

“I am concerned with aspects of your request,” Pompeo wrote to Engel, the Democratic congressmen from New York and chairman of the House foreign affairs committee.

“I will not tolerate such tactics, and I will use all means at my disposal to prevent and expose any attempts to intimidate the dedicated professionals,” Pompeo wrote, as reported by the AP.

The chairmen of three House committees, including Engel, made it clear last week that stonewalling their investigation would be considered obstruction of Congress in its investigation.

Pompeo is talking as if his boss were a dictator and he had the power to tell Congress to fuck off. He doesn’t.