SCOOP: Pompeo’s senior adviser will tell impeachment inquiry that career diplomats were mistreated during his tenure & had careers sidelined for political reasons, per source. Ouster of Yovanovitch was "too much for him" so he quit. From me & @CMorelloWP washingtonpost.com/world/national…
@CMorelloWP 🚨“The unwillingness of State Department leadership to defend Yovanovitch or interfere with an obviously partisan effort to intervene in our relationship with Ukraine for the political benefit of the president was too much for him,” said person familiar with testimony
@CMorelloWP The split has been bitter between Pompeo and his senior adviser as shown by the absence of a statement from Pompeo expressing gratitude for McKinley’s 37 years of service.
@CMorelloWP McKinley will make an opening statement that underscores an August report by the State Department’s inspector general concluding that the Trump administration’s political appointees bullied staffers and accused them of political disloyalty to the president, the source said.
@CMorelloWP The report condemned two State Department officials specifically: Kevin Moley and his former senior adviser, Mari Stull, a former lobbyist and consultant for food and agricultural industry also known as the "Vino Vixen"
@CMorelloWP Moley still holds his position, and officials have said Pompeo lacks the authority to dismiss political appointees, which diplomats say is not true.
@CMorelloWP The State Department accepted the recommendation of the report in August, and said it would submit a “corrective action plan” within 60 days, but that deadline has passed and Moley is still on the job
@CMorelloWP Pompeo’s status as the most trusted adviser in Trump’s Cabinet has led many in the building to question why he couldn’t expend that capital to defend Yovanovitch or even thank a career diplomat on his way out the door. 
