U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured) make joint statements during a news conference after a meeting in Jerusalem, August 24, 2020. Debbie Hill/Pool via REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will speak to the Republican National Convention this week despite having told U.S. diplomats that presidential appointees may not take part in any such partisan political activity.
Pompeo's planned speech "will violate legal restrictions on political activities according to a longstanding interpretation by State Department lawyers," Democratic Representative Eliot Engel, chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
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