Pompeo under fire for making speech at the RNC while on a diplomatic trip
2020-08-26 09:28:28 source：CNBC
August 25, 2020
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is slated to address the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, a move that upends decades of precedent and ethics guidelines aimed at separating America’s national security and foreign policy decision-makers from the whims of partisan politics.
The speech, which was recorded in Israel and is slated to air Tuesday night, is now under investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s subpanel on oversight. The subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, called the speech “highly unusual and likely unprecedented” and suggested, “it may also be illegal.”
It has also made waves among former diplomats and foreign policy experts, who say his address, recorded while on official travel, smashes through the last remaining guardrails intended to protect the nation’s top diplomat from the dirty business of political campaigns.
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