Court challenges to the criminal cases of Michael Flynn and Roger Stone could stretch well into the summer, according to separate court filings, signaling the former Trump advisers will likely face drawn-out battles in court
Washington Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said that he asked President Donald Trump to remove State Department Inspector General Steve Linick be fired because the independent watchdog was"undermining" the department and wasn't performing in a way that the top US diplomat wanted him to.
"I went to the President and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to, that was additive for the State Department, very consistent with what the statute says he's supposed to be doing," he told The Washington Post in his first public comments on the matter."The kinds of activities he's supposed to undertake to make us better, to improve us.
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