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WASHINGTON, DC 20510 6225
October 3, 2019
The Honorable Steve Linick
Inspector General
U.S. Department of State
Office of the Inspector General
SA-39
1700 North Moore Street
Arlington, VA 22209
Dear Inspector General Linick:
I am writing to renew my September 24th request for you to urgently investigate the State
Department's withholding of critical security assistance to Ukraine and to expand that
investigation to specifically cover the role of senior State Department officials in the Trump-
Ukraine scandal, including Secretary of State Pompeo and his Counselor Ulrich Brechbuhl.
Through information you provided to congressional committees and admissions by President
Trump's agent, Rudy Giuiani, it appears that Secretary Pompeo may have inappropriately and
unlawfully leveraged State Department resources-paid for by U.S. taxpayers to cause an
investigation solely designed to advance President Trump's personal and political agenda. Mr.
Brechbuhl may have wittingly or unwittingly participated in this effort. Such behavior is
squarely within your jurisdiction, and must be investigated in a thorough and expedited fashion.
Yesterday, you provided congressional staff with a series of documents that had been in the State
Department's possession, which were rife with false, debunked infornation concerning one of
President Trump's political opponents as well as former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie
Yovanovitch. You indicated that, according to Mr. Brechbuhl, Secretary Pompeo told him that
the documents had come over and were related to Ukraine, and that the Secretary asked Mr.
Brechbul to look into them. Mr. Brechbuhl then forwarded the documents to the State
Department Legal Adviser. Subsequently, the Acting State Legal Adviser forwarded them to you
at the direction of the Deputy Secretary. At the time of the briefing, you indicated that you did
not know where or from whom the documents originated.
Just hours after the briefin Mr. Giuiani reportedi indicated that: (I) he was the source of at
least some of the documents; (2) he gave the documents either to the White House, which then
passed them to Secretary Pompeo, or directly to Secretary Pompeo; and (3) Secretary Pompeo
called Giuliani after receiving the documents and told him that the Department would
investigate.'
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