Mike Pompeo's wife asked senior State Department aides to help send personal holiday cards: emails

[Judi Lynn]

Emails show the Pompeos directing State Department employees to help them with personal tasks on government time

ROGER SOLLENBERGER
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 6:45PM (UTC)

When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's wife used a private email account to ask senior State Department officials to help the couple finish sending out their personal holiday cards, she made it clear that the request should not be shared beyond a small, private group.

"I see that you are out of the office all next week," Susan Pompeo wrote State Department senior adviser Toni Porter from her personal email address on Dec. 19, 2019. "Do you know, is Joe also out? I'm wondering if we are sending the last of our personal cards out, who will be there to help me. Mike will not want to go outside you and Joe for this assistance."

Porter, who has served as an aide to Pompeo since he represented Kansas as a House Republican, forwarded the email to Lisa Kenna, a career employee serving as State Department executive secretary. Though Kenna offered to help, she told Porter that she would "worry about asking others for personal things."

The emails, obtained by McClatchy, show the Pompeo family knowingly directing State Department employees to help it personal tasks on government time. Such actions were the subject of a probe by the department inspector general's office.

More:
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/14/mike-pompeos-wife-asked-senior-state-department-aides-to-help-send-personal-holiday-cards-emails/

[kimbutgar]

1. Yes drip drip drip

It will be a flood of law breaking in his administration between now and Election Day.

[flying_wahini]

2. What an ass. Can't she afford to hire a sec'y on her own dime? Honestly, what grifters.

[genxlib]

3. Nothing says Merry Christmas

Like the personal touch of having someone else do your holiday cards.

Geez, just save the postage. If you can't be bothered to do it yourself then your holiday greetings are meaningless.