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    Trump’s war on watchdogs

    May 22, 2020 3 minutes
    By John Walcott
    PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN ERNST

    WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FIRED State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on May 15, it wasn’t the first time he had taken aim at a government watchdog in recent weeks. It wasn’t even the second. Since April, Trump has fired or replaced four inspectors general, part of a broader campaign that rolls back post-Watergate government-accountability measures.

    In Linick’s case, Trump acted on the recommendation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as Pompeo himself

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