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Intel: Saudi arms sale probe factored in Trump's firing of watchdog

President Donald Trump fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick last week in part because of an investigation into an $8 billion emergency arms sales for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a source on Capitol Hill told Al-Monitor.
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President Donald Trump fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick last week in part because of an investigation into an $8 billion emergency arms sale for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a source on Capitol Hill told Al-Monitor.

A Democratic aide told Al-Monitor that the House Foreign Affairs Committee “has received information that this investigation was tied to his removal.”

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