The watchdog drew parallels between Mike Pompeo's alleged use of his personal email account and the case of Hillary Clinton, who used her private email server for government work while serving as US Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
The Washington-based non-profit ethics watchdog American Oversight has claimed in a report that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his personal email account to exchange messages while he served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) between 2007 and 2008. The State Department has not commented on the matter yet.
The report argued on Wednesday that Pompeo “appears to have regularly received official schedules at his personal email account” while working at the CIA.
American Oversight also noted that while they had recently managed to review about 400 pages of Pompeo's personal emails that he sent while CIA director, there's still a question mark about whether he used a non-government account for sending emails while working in his current capacity.
The watchdog referred to a lawsuit they lodged in July 2019 that requested access to Pompeo's emails sent as US Secretary of State.
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