Brian Bulatao, the under-secretary of State for management, was
to have testified to the committee on Thursday. Bulatao has
emerged as a central figure in the removal of Steve Linick as
State's inspector general.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, fired Linick on May 15,
the latest in a series of government watchdogs Trump has
dismissed. Linick told the foreign affairs panel in an interview
that the State Department had discouraged him from investigating
arms sales to Saudi Arabia before his removal.
In a statement on Wednesday, Democratic Representative Eliot
Engel, the committee's chairman, said the State Department had
asked to delay the hearing until it had a chance to review the
report on the arms sales, and that he had agreed to hold the
hearing later in July.
Pompeo has insisted Linick's dismissal was not retaliation and
called him a "bad actor."
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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