Mike Pompeo's explanation for the firing of State's inspector general doesn't make sense

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/19/politics/mike-pompeo-steve-linick-state-department/index.html

 In the wake of the removal of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick by President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to quell the controversy in an interview with The Washington Post on Monday. He did the opposite.

"I went to the President and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to, that was additive for the State Department, very consistent with what the statute says he's supposed to be doing," Pompeo told the Post by way of "explanation" for his push to have Linick fired by Trump. "The kinds of activities he's supposed to undertake to make us better, to improve us."

 

OK. So, Pompeo -- according to Bulatao's explanation -- asked Trump to fire Linick because of leaks to the media about ongoing IG investigations that they had absolutely no evidence that Linick had been involved in? Uh, what?