Complainant alleges that repeated attempts were made to report Pompeo’s “questionable activities”

A State Department whistleblower attempted to warn the agency’s Office of Legal Affairs of “questionable” activities involving the Secretary Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard Pompeo Democrats warn of new US human rights priorities Trump campaign encourages voters to sign petition banning TikTok A senior DHS official says the agency does not see “coordinated interference” “in foreign elections MORE but he was “blocked” from doing so, according to the complaint.

McClatchy reported Sunday that the complaint, made public through a lawsuit filed by the American Oversight watchdog group, alleged that the unidentified employee and other “witnesses” were unable to share concerns about Pompeo’s activities in the United States and abroad with the superiors and the legal authorities of the agency. despite repeated attempts.

The State Department rejected McClatchy’s request for comment on the whistleblower complaint. However, in explaining the redactions made to the whistleblower complaint, the agency’s attorneys revealed that Pompeo remains the target of at least one active investigation despite organizing the firing of the agency’s Inspector General in May.

According to McClatchy, places named by the complainant as sites of the secretary’s “questionable” alleged deals included Florida, New York, Washington DC, and other places abroad. More information on the nature of the alleged activities was not available.

Several other State Department officials “were repeatedly informed of these concerns,” the complaint continued.

“As far as I know, none of them took steps to resolve the problems, and several of them specifically directed subordinate staff to continue facilitating questionable activities after concerns arose,” the complainant wrote.

The American Oversight chief executive officer noted the ongoing investigation as a sign of optimism regarding efforts to hold Pompeo accountable in a statement to McClatchy. of investigating the secretary’s conduct, “said Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight.” But in other ways, there are many things we don’t yet know about that conduct. “

“In some ways, this is good news, because there is now some indication that the inspector general’s office has not backed down from investigating the secretary’s conduct,” Austin Evers said. “But in other ways, there are a lot of things we don’t know about that behavior yet.”