Pompeo stopped him with Mitch McConnell promising to impeach him.
That agency should never have been created. It is immune from oversight, immune from funding, immune from everything. Why does it exist if it refuses, cannot be a part of a legal constitutional republic? No one can know anything about this agency. Their funding is by law not available, their staff cannot be known. How can we know what this agency is doing, what purpose it serves, and if it is acting to protect our country?
McConnell was threatening to urge GOPe types to convict Trump in the second impeachment trial if Trump had pardoned Assange.