ROME -- The "ancestral homeland" in Italy's Abruzzo region that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was looking forward to visiting on Thursday barely had enough notice to organize a welcoming ceremony."It all happened so fast," said Guido Angelilli, the mayor of Pacentro,
ROME — The “ancestral homeland” in Italy’s Abruzzo region that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was looking forward to visiting on Thursday barely had enough notice to organize a welcoming ceremony.
Their comings and goings have provoked some consternation, and more than a little speculation, in the Italian media. The Italian government has so far refused to say a word about a trip to the capital last week by Attorney General William Barr to meet with Italian intelligence officers as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to discredit the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
The visit, however, could also serve as a welcome getaway from the impeachment inquiry, at least for a day. An altogether different, and much more recent, Italian mystery has drawn the intense interest of the Trump administration. “Mifsud was an Italian operative handled by the CIA,” Papadopoulos wrote on Twitter on Sept. 27, the day Barr was in Italy. “Italy holds the keys to the kingdom. Right government, right time.”
Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper reported that Conte, who oversees the country’s intelligence services, authorized Barr and John H. Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to receive full access to the upper echelon of Italy’s intelligence agencies during their visits to Rome. Durham is leading the Justice Department inquiry into the origins of the Mueller investigation.
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