Yakatorerwa Watchdog Yaitarisa KuSaudi Arms Kutengeswa

NaMateu Lee, Chivabvu 18, 2020

From ABC News

VaDemocrats veMatare vanoti Dhipatimendi reHurumende rinotarisa rakadzingwa neMutungamiriri Donald Trump svondo rapfuura yaive ichiongorora zvisingaite mukutengesa kwakakura kwemaoko kuSaudi Arabia gore rakapera, ichiwedzera mibvunzo mitsva pakudzingwa kwemuridzi wenguva pfupi.

VaDemocrat vakati Muvhuro uyo akadzinga Inspector General Steve Linick vaiongorora mashandiro akaita Dhipatimendi reHurumende kuburikidza nekutengesa zvombo zvemadhora mazana manomwe emadhora ekuSaudi pamusoro pekupokana kwemusangano. MaDemocrat akamboti kudzingwa kwacho kungave kwakange kwakasungwa pakuferefetwa kwaLinick kwekupomerwa kuti Secretary of State Mike Pompeo anogona kunge akarayira zvisina kukodzera vashandi kuti vamumhanyire ivo pachavo.

Kudzingwa kwaLinick kupera kweChishanu kunouya pakati pekunetsekana kwakanyanya pamusoro pekubviswa kwaTrump kwevakuru venzvimbo mumapazi akasiyana siyana. VaTrump vakataura kuti vanga vasisina kuvimba neavo vakadzingwa basa asi havana kupa zvikonzero, izvo vanofunga nezvemitemo kubva kumapato ese.

Pompeo akaudza The Washington Post neMuvhuro kuti akange akurudzira kuna Trump kuti Linick abviswe nekuti "aishora" basa reDhipatimendi reHurumende. Haazotaure zvakanangwa kunze kwekungoti zvaive zvisiri kutsiva chero kuferefetwa.

"Hazvigoneke kuti danho iri, kana kurudziro yangu asi, kumutungamiriri wenyika, zvange zvakavakirwa pakuedza kutsiva kuferefetwa kuri kuitika, kana kuri kuitika," Pompeo akaudza Post, achiwedzera kuti akazviita. asingazive kana hofisi yaLinick yanga ichitarisa mukukanganisa kwaangaite.

Pasi pemunyori wezvematunhu, Brian Bulatao akaudza tsamba iyi kuti kuvimba naLinick kwakatanga kupera simba mushure mekusvetuka kune vezvenhau gore rakapfuura nezvekuferefeta kwe IG mukutsiva kwezvematongerwo enyika kune vanoita basa rezvematongerwo enyika. Pakaburitswa, mushumo uyu waive wakatsoropodzwa kune vanoverengeka vezvematongerwo enyika nekuti vakaita zvakapokana nevashandi vebasa vairatidzika kuti vakavimbika kuna Trump.

Trump akasimbisa Muvhuro kuti akadzinga Linick pachikumbiro chaPompeo.

“Ndine mvumo yakakwana semutungamiri wenyika yekumisa basa. Ndikati, 'Ndiani akamugadza?' Uye ivo vanoti, 'Mutungamiri Obama.' Ndati, tarisa, ndichamugumisa, ”akadaro Trump kuWhite House.

Rep. Eliot Engel, sachigaro weState Foreign Affairs Committee, akati anoshushikana kuti Linick akadzingwa basa isati yapera kuferefetwa kwaSaudi. Engel akadaidzira kuferefetwa uku mushure mePompeo muna Chivabvu 2019 kukumbira runyararo rwaisamboshandiswa mumutemo wehurumende kuti vadzore musangano wekutengesa zvombo kuSaudi Arabia neUnited Arab Emirates.

"Hofisi yake yaiferefeta - pakukumbira kwangu - kuzivisa kwekunyepedzera kwaTrump kwekukurumidzira kuitira kuti atumire zvombo kuSaudi Arabia," akadaro Engel, DN.Y. "Hatisati taziva zvizere, asi zviri kunetsa kuti Secretary Pompeo aida kuti VaLinick vabudiswe basa iri risati rapera."

Akadaidzira Dhipatimendi reHurumende kuti ishandure marekodhi ane chekuita nekupfura kwaLinick kuti iye neiye mukuru weDemocrat muDare reSenate Kunze Kwehukama, Sen.Bob Menendez weNew Jersey, vakakumbira neMugovera.

Mutauri weSecurity House, Nancy Pelosi, "zvaityisa" kuona mishumo yekuti kupfura uku kungave kuri kwekuferefeta kwaLinick muchibvumirano chemaSaudi. Mutsamba kunaTrump, akada tsananguro.

VaTrump vakazivisa Congress nezve kudzingwa, sezvaidikanwa. Asi Pelosi akati zvakakosha kuti aburitse "zvakadzama uye zvakadzama kurusununguko" nguva isati yapera kwemazuva makumi matatu yekudzokorora nguva.

Zvichakadaro, Trump ally Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, uyo akatsidzira kuchengetedzwa kwevaongorori vezvesevenzi, akavandudza kudanwa kweiyo White House kuti itsanangure kudzingwa kwaLinick uye mubati wekare wezveuchenjeri wenharaunda anochengetedza Michael Atkinson.

Grassley akati Congress yakafunga kuti vaongorori venzvimbo vese vangobviswa kana paine humbowo hwekuti havana kukodzera, havana kutadza kana kutadza kuita basa muhofisi.

"Kutaura kwekusavimba chivimbo, pasina imwe tsananguro, hakuna kukwana," akadaro Grassley.

Kupera kwevhiki, vabatsiri veungano vakafunga kuti kudzingwa kungave kwakaitwa nekuferefetwa mukufungidzira kuti Pompeo akaraira mushandi kuti atore chikafu chekudya, amuunganidze akaomeswa uye mukadzi wake, uye achengete imbwa yavo.

VaTrump vakati havana hanya nezvipomerwa uye havana ruzivo nekuferefetwa kwakaitwa naLinick muPompeo.

"Vari kunetsekana nekuti ari kuita kuti mumwe munhu afambe imbwa yake?" Trump akadaro. "Zviri nani ndive naye parunhare nemumwe mutungamiri wenyika pane kumuwachira ndiro."

Mutungamiri akadzivirira kutengesa kwezvombo zveSaudi, achiti zvinofanirwa kunge zviri "nyore sezvinobvira" kune dzimwe nyika kutenga zvombo zveUS kuitira kuti varege kuzviwana kubva kuChina, Russia nedzimwe nyika.

"Tinofanira kutora mabasa uye titore mari, nekuti mabhiriyoni emadhora," akadaro Trump.

Kunyange zvichinetsa, zvirevo zvakadaro hazvikwanisike kuti zvingaite chero rudzi rwemhedzisiro yakasimba inopesana nePompeo kana ikaratidza seyakanaka. Kutsvaga kusakosha mune yekutengesa zvombo zveSaudi kunogona kuve kwakanyanya.

Engel nemamwe maCommocrat maDemocrat vakafadzwa apo Pompeo akazivisa Congress nezve sarudzo yekushandisa chiitiko chekukurumidzira muArms Export Control Act kuti ifambire mberi nekutengesa kwemabhiriyoni manomwe emadhora mukururamisa kwakatemwa munitions, mamwe mabhomba uye mfuti uye rubatsiro rwekuchengetedza ndege kuSaudi Arabia, pamwe neUnited Arab Emirates uye Jordan, pasina kubvumidzwa kwevamiririri.

Mutemo unoda kuti Congress ziviswe nezvezvinogona kuitika kutengesa kwemaoko, ichipa muviri mukana wekurambidza kutengesa. Asi mutemo unobvumirawo mutungamiri wenyika kumisa nzira yekudzokorora nekuzivisa emergency kuti inoda kuti kutengeswa kuitwe "mukuchengetedza nyika yeUnited States."

Pachiziviso chake, Pompeo akati akaita danho rekuti "emergency" iripo inoda kutengeswa ipapo "zvombo" kuitira kudzivirira kushatisa kwehurumende yeIran mudunhu reMiddle East. "

Izvo zvakauya apo manejimendi akapa chibvumirano chepedyo neSaudi Arabia pamusoro pekupokana kwemusangano, kunyanya zvichitevera kuuraiwa kwaJamal Khashoggi, munyori wezvekuUnited States weThe Washington Post, nemakurukota eSaudi muna Gumiguru 2018.