A senior administration official and a congressional aide said that the State Department’s inspector general, Steve Link, was removed.
And Lynek, who is in that position in 2013, President Barack Obama at the time, is the most recent inspector general who has been expelled from office in recent months, having had a role in House of Representatives accountability investigations against President Donald Trump, and he has transferred a set of documents to the legislators that have been submitted To the State Department by Rudi Giuliani, the President’s Personal Counsel.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Ambassador Stephen Accard, a former diplomat in the diplomatic corps, would take over the administration of the State Department’s Inspector General’s office, noting that Accord had been confirmed by the Senate as head of the Foreign Missions Office.
Source: Agencies
