{"id":31335,"date":"2020-10-10T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31335"},"modified":"2020-10-10T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:11:56","slug":"why-is-sos-pompeo-not-releasing-the-clinton-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31335","title":{"rendered":"Why is SoS Pompeo not releasing the Clinton emails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pompeo says he expects more Clinton emails to be released before election<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->BY TAL AXELROD<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mike-pompeo\" data-nid=\"188003\">Mike Pompeo<\/a><\/span>\u00a0said Friday he expects his agency will release more of\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>\u2019s emails in the coming weeks after\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0publicly urged him to be more aggressive in going after the former secretary of State and other political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got the emails, we\u2019re getting them out. We\u2019re going to get all this information out so the American people can see it,\u201d Pompeo said during an interview\u00a0with Fox News&#8217;s Dana Perino.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing it as fast as we can. I certainly think there\u2019ll be more to see before the election,\u201d he added when pressed about the timing.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo did not specify exactly which emails he was referring to, though Trump and his allies have long railed against Clinton for keeping official emails with classified information on a personal server.<\/p>\n<p>Classified information \u201cshould have never been there,\u201d Pompeo said Friday in reference to the server, adding that the former Obama Cabinet secretary engaged in \u201cunacceptable behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The declaration comes after Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/520160-trump-swipes-at-barr-pompeo-wray-in-fox-business-interview\">criticized Pompeo<\/a>\u00a0and Attorney General\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/william-barr\" data-nid=\"435744\">William Barr<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for not being aggressive enough in going after his political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has ramped up pressure on administration officials to levy punishments on Clinton and other Obama-era officials for the former&#8217;s use of a private email server and the latter&#8217;s involvement in opening a probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>The president name-checked Pompeo in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/520160-trump-swipes-at-barr-pompeo-wray-in-fox-business-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thursday interview<\/a> on Fox Business, accusing him\u00a0of not working quickly enough to release Clinton\u2019s emails, a subject of GOP fascination since her time as secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re in the State Department, but Mike Pompeo has been unable to get them out, which is very sad, actually,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I\u2019m not happy about him for that reason. He was unable to get them out. I don\u2019t know why. You\u2019re running the State Department, you get them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI concluded in 2016 that Clinton, who was then running for president, had been &#8220;extremely careless&#8221; in her handling of classified information during her tenure as secretary of State, but found no criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the president and Republican allies have used the emails as a cudgel to hit Democrats over broader complaints that Democrats in the Obama administration, in their view,\u00a0sought to undermine Trump during and after his 2016 White House bid.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are currently overseeing a number of investigations in the Senate, including into the Justice Department\u2019s investigation into Russia&#8217;s election meddling and GOP claims it was improperly conducted, inquiries Democrats say are intended to help Trump in an election year.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo dismissed concerns that his efforts to release emails before the election could have adverse impacts on the nation\u2019s intelligence-gathering abilities, saying he\u2019s \u201cnever seen [Trump] do anything that would put any kind of asset, any one of our officers in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/520426-pompeo-says-he-expects-more-clinton-emails-to-be-released-before\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/520426-pompeo-says-he-expects-more-clinton-emails-to-be-released-before<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pompeo says he expects more Clinton emails to be released before election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}