Mike Pompeo says House committee should stop trying to ‘bully’ his staffers into giving depositions and refrain from sending them ‘intimidating communications’ in new resistance to impeachment probe

• Pompeo fired off an angry letter to House Foreign Affairs chair Eliot Engel
• He said the committee was sending ‘intimidating communications’
• Said it gives witnesses a ‘woefully inadequate opportunity’ to prepare
• Pompeo himself was revealed to be on President Trump’s infamous call with Ukrainian president 
• House Intel committee has scheduled depositions this week 
• His resistance could signal a continued hard line against assisting congressional inquiries even during impeachment 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired off an angry letter to a House Committee chairman Tuesday blasting efforts at ‘bullying’ his staffers into providing information – in a new show of resistance to what has become an impeachment inquiry.

Pompeo wrote House Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel amid an effort to haul in State Department staff to talk about what a whistle-blower says is an effort by President Trump to abuse power and force Ukraine to help his 2020 election campaign.

He wrote as key figures – including the prior U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who got pushed out and the recently-resigned U.S. envoy to Ukraine are scheduled to be deposed.

‘I am concerned with aspects of your request … that can be understood only as an attempt to intimidate, bully, and treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the Department of State, including several career Foreign Service Officers, whom the committee is now targeting,’ Pompeo inveighed.

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