It seems that a common trait among the Trump administration cabinet members, and Trump himself, is the inability to connect one statement to an earlier one, or one event to an earlier one.

In defending himself against the charge of having an inspector general dismissed from the state department for the offense of looking into some potentially incorrect action on the part of himself, Secretary of state Mike Pompeo had this attribute on full display.

An inspector general is supposed to be a Senate-confirmed independent watchdog within his or her agency.

When Pompeo was asked about the firing of Steve Linick, the IG in the state department, he first avoided giving an explanation for the termination and then contradicted himself by admitting that he was behind the firing and recommending it to Trump.

“I recommended to the president that Steve Linick be terminated. Frankly, should have done it some time ago.”

Because he was the subject of the inspector general’s inquiry, obviously Pompeo could not fire him himself, so turning to Trump to have him do was his only option which Trump did while admitting that he knew nothing of Linick and made the move on Pompeo’s recommendation.

Firing an inspector general because he is doing his job defeats the purpose of having an internal watchdog.

Linick was conducting investigations of Pompeo’s personal conduct and departmental actions including allegations that he inappropriately made department staff perform his personal errands, like walking his dog and questions around the odd emergency declaration which permitted selling U.S. arms to Saudi Arabia for its ongoing war with Yemen.

The only reason originally given for the firing was because Linick’s action, unspecified, was “undermining the department’s mission.”

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When asked about the firing, Pompeo relied on avoiding an answer

“Unlike others, I don’t talk about personnel matters. I don’t leak to y’all. I’ll just say this; I can’t talk, I can’t give you specificity. We’ll share with the appropriate people the rationale.”

But going to the president who admitted he knew nothing about the inspector general means whatever that personnel matter was it was presented by Pompeo and not a third, independent party.

Having the inspector general fired while Pompeo was the subject of the IG’s investigation was seen as a little suspicious, and when asked about it, rather than give a straight-forward answer, Pompeo decided to get snippy, and cutely combined separate charges to pass the whole thing off with humor that missed its mark by stating,

“There are claims that this was for retaliation, for some investigation that the inspector general’s office was engaged in. It’s patently false. I have no sense of what investigations were taking place inside the inspector general’s office. Couldn’t possibly have retaliated for all the things — I’ve seen the various stories that someone was walking my dog to sell arms to my dry cleaner. I mean, it’s all just crazy! It’s all crazy stuff! So I didn’t have access to that information, so I couldn’t possibly have retaliated. It would have been impossible.”

And in the next instant, he contradicted what he had just said by mentioning questions he had to answer that would have certainly given him some inkling as to what an investigation was about.

“There’s one exception. I was asked a series of questions in writing. I responded to those questions with respect to a particular investigation that was some time earlier this year, best I can recall. I responded to those questions, I don’t know the scope, I don’t know the nature of that investigation, other than what I would have seen from the nature of the questions that I was presented.”

With nothing to back his claim that there was no retaliation in the firing he sought, he wants us, his boss, to just accept his claim that he is innocent of what he did.

If he did nothing wrong, he has the obligation to tell the public the whole and truthful story.