Pompeo denies push for Clinton emails violates Hatch Act

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday pushed back against the notion that he is violating the Hatch Act and campaigning for President Trump by agreeing to release emails linked to former secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server amid pressure from President Trump.

"Releasing emails for the sake of transparency can't possibly be a violation of the Hatch Act," Pompeo said in response to a reporter during a briefing at the State Department. "That's a ridiculous question."

Weeks before the election, Trump is pressing Pompeo to release emails from Clinton, the president's Democratic rival in 2016, that may have put classified information at risk of exposure.

Trump attacked Pompeo last week in an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business, saying he was "not happy" with the secretary for not finding and releasing emails that Clinton is believed to have deleted or kept on a private server.




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How many times does it have to be repeated you bloated pig? Hillary isn't running!!!

[Coleman]

1. Pompeo seems to forget that Trump gave classified information to the Russian Ambassador

where the source was Israeli intelligence.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Why not release them AFTER the election and remove any doubt whether Pompeo's actions are nefarious.

Oh, that right -- Pompeo's actions ARE nefarious.

[ScratchCat]

3. I'm confused here

The e-mails were either "deleted" or kept on a sever he has no access to they say. So how could Mike Pompeo "release" something that doesn't exist or that he doesn't have?

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. Will rehashing Hillary's email scandal even work much now?

Its laughably pathetic for one.

Its like Democrats using one of Bush's many abuses to run on today as a reason to vote against Trump. Correction, Hillary wasn't ever elected as POTUS. Its like using some incident involving Bush's SoS Condoleezza Rice. (Saying she didn't even read the OBL warning memo for instance).

And hasn't Pence and Ivanka been caught doing the exact same thing since?

[OilemFirchen]

6. Can't the Democrats dig up something on Bob Dole?

Talk about skeletons!

[durablend]

7. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[onetexan]

8. so umm..what does he think he has to gain by rehashing Hillary's emails? Nothing on Hunter Biden so

pivot to same old same old? Not sure how this helps him in his contest against Biden but Hillary still lives in his head apparently.