Pompeo Housing Request Set Off Legal Alarms

“In his early months on the job, Mike Pompeo sought an unusual perk for a secretary of State: permission to rent a Washington, D.C.-area house that was controlled by the U.S. military. Pompeo and his aides initially tried to arrange for the chief U.S. diplomat and his family to live close to the State Department in the Potomac Hill campus, where the Navy maintained some homes,” Politico reports.

“But ultimately the Pompeos moved into U.S. Army housing at the Fort Myer base in Virginia, according to people familiar with the issue. Along the way, the request set off legal and logistical alarms, raising questions about whether Pompeo is eligible for any sort of military housing.”