Umlindi ojongiweyo wayejonge kwiNtengiso yaseSaudi Arms

Ngu-Matthew Lee, nge-18 kaMeyi, 2020

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Iidemokrasi zoMgaqo-siseko zithi iSebe leLizwe liliso elonganyelwe ngu-Mongameli uDonald Trump Kule veki iphelileyo besiphanda ngokungekho semthethweni kwintengiso enkulu yezandla eSaudi Arabia kunyaka ophelileyo, yongeza imibuzo emitsha ekugxothweni komlindi.

Iidemokhrasi zathi ngoMvulo ukugxotha uMhloli Jikelele uSteve Linick wayezama indlela iSebe likaRhulumente elityhale ngayo ukuthengiswa kweengalo ze-7 zeedola zase-Saudi ngenxa yenkcaso yenkongolo. Iidemokhrasi ngaphambili zacebisa ukuba ukugxothwa kunganxulunyaniswa nophando lukaLinick ngezityholo zokuba uNobhala welizwe uMike Pompeo usenokuba wayalela ngokungafanelekanga abasebenzi ukuba bamenzele imisebenzi yobuqu.

Ukugxothwa kukaLinick ngasekupheleni kwangoLwesihlanu kuza phakathi kwenkxalabo ebanzi malunga nokususwa kukaTrump kwabahloli ngokubanzi kumasebe ohlukeneyo. UTrump uthe waphulukana nokuzithemba kwabo badutyulwe kodwa enganikanga zizathu zibekekileyo, abathi abomthetho bavele bobabini.

U-Pompeo uxelele I-Washington Post ngoMvulo ukuba ucebise kuTrump ukuba uLinick asuswe kuba "ejongela phantsi" umsebenzi weSebe likaRhulumente. Akayi kujongana nezinto ezithile ngaphandle kokuba athi ayiziphindezeli ngalo naluphi na uphando.

"Akunakwenzeka ukuba esi sigqibo, okanye isincomo sam, kumongameli kunokuba, sasisekwe kuwo nawuphi na umzamo wokuziphindezela ngalo naluphi na uphando olwaluqhubeka, okanye oluqhubekayo ngoku," utshilo uPompeo kwiPost, wongeza ukuba wenza njalo. Andazi ukuba i-ofisi kaLinick ibijonge ngokungafanelekanga kwicala lakhe.

Ngaphantsi ko-Nobhala Wezolawulo uBrian Bulatao uxelele le Posi ukuba ukuzithemba ku-Linick kuqalile ukuncipha emva kokuvuza kwimithombo yeendaba kunyaka ophelileyo malunga nophando lwe-IG ukuziphindezela kwezopolitiko kubasebenzi abatyunjelwe kwezopolitiko. Xa ikhululwayo, le ngxelo ibigxeka abantu abatyunjiweyo kwezopolitiko ngenxa yokuba bethathe amanyathelo ngokuchasene namagosa omsebenzi abonwa njengonganyanisekanga kuTrump.

UTrump uqinisekisile ngoMvulo ukuba ugxothe uLinick ngesicelo sikaPompeo.

“Ndinelungelo elipheleleyo lokuba ngumongameli lokuba ndirhoxe. Ndithe, 'Ngubani ommisele?' Kwaye bathi, 'Mongameli Obama.' Ndathi, jonga, ndiza kumnqumamisa, utshilo uTrump kwi-White House.

U-Eliot Engel, usihlalo weKomiti yezeMicimbi yezeKhaya, uthe unexhala lokuba uLinick wagxothwa ngaphambi kokugqitywa kophando lwaseSaudi. U-Engel ubize le projekthi emva kokuba uPompeo nge-Meyi ka-2019 wacela umthetho ongasetyenziswanga ukuba ugqithise uhlaziyo lokuthengisa ngezixhobo eSaudi Arabia nakwi-United Arab Emirates.

"I-ofisi yakhe ibiphanda-ngesicelo sam-isimemezelo sikaTrump sokunyanzeliswa ukuze athumele izixhobo eSaudi Arabia," utshilo u-Engel, DN.Y. "Asikabi nawo umfanekiso opheleleyo okwangoku, kodwa kuyasiphazamisa ukuba uNobhala uPompeo wayefuna ukuba uMnu Linick aphume phambi kokuba ugqitywe lo msebenzi."

Ubize iSebe likaRhulumente ukuba liguqule iirekhodi ezinxulumene nokugxothwa kukaLinick ukuba yena kunye ne-Democrat ephezulu kwi-Senate Committee Relations Committee, u-Sen. Bob Menendez wase-New Jersey, bafune ngoMgqibelo.

Isithethi seNdlu uNancy Pelosi uthe "kuyothusa" ukubona iingxelo zokuba ukudubula kusenokwenzeka ukuba bekuphendula kuphando lukaLinick kwisivumelwano seengalo zaseSaudi. Kwileta eya kuTrump, wafuna ingcaciso.

UTrump wazise iCongress malunga nokugxothwa, njengoko kufuneka. Kodwa uPelosi uthe kubalulekile ukuba abonelele "ngezizathu ezichanekileyo nezibalulekileyo zokususwa" ngaphambi kokuphela kwexesha leentsuku ezingama-30 zokuphononongwa.

Okwangoku, uTrump ally Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, othethelele ukukhusela abahloli jikelele, uvuselele umnxeba kwi-White House ukuba ichaze ukugxothwa kukaLinick kunye nokugxothwa kwangaphambili komlindi weqela lolwazi uMichael Atkinson.

UGrassley uthe iCongress inenjongo yokuba abahloli ngokubanzi basuswe kuphela xa kukho ubungqina obucacileyo bokungafaneleki, ukungalunganga okanye ukusilela ukwenza imisebenzi yeofisi.

"Ukubonakalisa ukuzithemba okuphulukileyo, ngaphandle kwengcaciso ethe kratya, akonelanga," utshilo uGrassley.

Kwiveki ephelileyo, abancedisi benkomfa bacebise ukuba kungenzeka ukuba ugxothiwe wachukunyiswa sisityholo sokuba u-Pompeo wayalele umqeshwa ukuba athathe ukutya, amthabathele kuye kunye nenkosikazi yakhe, kwaye bamkhathalele nenja yabo.

UTrump uthe akanantlonelo ngezi zityholo kwaye akazazi naluphi na uphando olwenziwe nguLinick kwiPompeo.

"Baxakekile kuba enomntu ohamba nenja yakhe?" Utshilo uTrump. “Ndingathanda ukuba afowunele inkokeli ethile yehlabathi kunokuba ndihlambe izitya.”

Umongameli ukhusele ukuthengiswa kwezixhobo zaseSaudi, esithi kufanele ukuba kube lula kangangoko kunokwenzeka kwamanye amazwe ukuba athenge izixhobo zase-US ukuze bangazifumani e-China, eRashiya nakwezinye izizwe.

"Kufanele sithathe imisebenzi kwaye sithathe imali, kuba zizigidigidi zeedola," utshilo uTrump.

Ngexa inengxaki, izityholo ezinjalo azinakwenzeka ukuba zikhokelela kulo naluphi na uhlobo lwesiphumo esibi ngokuchasene nePompeo ukuba ingqineke ichanekile. Ukufumana ukungalunganga kwintengiso yeengalo zaseSaudi kunokuba yinto embi kakhulu.

U-Engel kunye nezinye ii-Democrat zenkomfa zamangaliswa xa uPompeo wazisa iCongress ngesigqibo sokusebenzisa into engxamisekileyo kwi-Arms Export Control Act ukuze uqhubele phambili ngokuthengisa i-7 yezigidigidi zeerandi kwimisebenzi eqondiswe ngokuchanekileyo, ezinye iibhombu kunye nemipu kunye nenkxaso yokugcinwa kwenqwelomoya eSaudi Arabia, kunye ne-United Arab Emirates kunye neJordani, ngaphandle kwemvume yabenzi bomthetho.

Umthetho ufuna iCongress ukuba yaziswe ngentengiso yeengalo ezinokubakho, ukunika umzimba ithuba lokuvimba intengiso. Kodwa umthetho uvumela umongameli ukuba ayirhoxise inkqubo yokujonga ngokuxakeka efuna ukuba intengiso yenziwe "kwimicimbi yezokhuseleko yaseMelika."

Kwisaziso sakhe, uPompeo uthe wenze isigqibo "sokuba kukho imeko yongxamiseko efuna ukuthengiswa kwangoko" kwezi zixhobo "ukunqanda impembelelo ezimbi zikarhulumente wase-Iran kulo mmandla uphela we-Middle East."

Kuza njengolawulo olwenziweyo ubudlelwane kunye ne-Saudi Arabia malunga neenkcaso zokungahambelani, ingakumbi emva kokubulawa kukaJamal Khashoggi, umlobi osekwe e-US kwiWashington Post, ngabameli baseSaudi ngo-Okthobha ka-2018.