Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to address tonight’s Republican Convention has unleashed a scandal, because it baldly violates stated law—the Hatch Act—that bars government employees from publicly engaging in partisan politics. According to NBC News, other diplomats are “aghast” at Pompeo’s blatantly political move. The fact that he will be speaking during an official overseas trip to Jerusalem, and that his trip there was paid for by the U.S. government, makes his decision all the more egregious.
Former State Department career officer Linda Thomas-Greenfield told NBC that “Pompeo is clearly ensuring the State Department is politicized by using his position to carry out what is basically a partisan mission.” None of this should come as any surprise, however. As Renée Sigerson points out in an upcoming article for EIR, “Today, it is Pompeo, a distilled by-product of international globalists’ poisonous, decades-long subversion of the U.S. political process, who is daily usurping Presidential authority.” At least one memo issued by the State Department’s office of the Legal Adviser, states explicitly that no “Senate-confirmed Presidential appointee” can even attend “a political party convention.”
