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US Democrats launch probe into ouster of State Dept watchdog

US State Department inspector general Steve Linick, pictured on Capitol Hill in October 2019, was appointed in 2013 by Trump's predecessor Barack Obama to oversee the $70 billion juggernauts of US diplomacy. [Image: AFP]

Congressional Democrats on Saturday launched a probe into President Donald Trump's "politically-motivated" dismissal of a government watchdog believed to have been investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

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