Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s push to release a new tranche of Hillary Clinton’s emails ahead of the November presidential election has prompted backlash from Democrats on Capitol Hill and unease within the State Department, according to four officials and several congressional aides.
The move came after President Donald Trump criticized Pompeo, one of his most loyal underlings, for not releasing Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Pompeo quickly buckled, telling Fox News on Friday that the department had the emails and was pushing to release them “as fast as we can,” including a probable release before the election.
