WASHINGTON _ A whistleblower complaint from a State Department employee about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's conduct, made public for the first time through a lawsuit and obtained by McClatchy, reveals that eyewitnesses made repeated attempts to inform executive leadership and legal advisers about his "questionable activities."
The whistleblower said they had additional evidence to back up their allegations against Pompeo, according to a redacted complaint to the State Department inspector general's hotline. The complainant said concerned parties were "blocked" from reporting the activity to the department's legal affairs office.
"I directly witnessed much of the behavior," the whistleblower wrote. Others, the complaint states, "tried on several occasions to obtain clarifications and guidance from senior leadership in (the executive secretariat) and from the Office of Legal Advisers, but were blocked from doing so."
