"reveals a clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary Pompeo to facilitate

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Documents released to ethics group show Giuliani, Pompeo contacts before Ukraine ambassador ousted

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/documents-released-ethics-group-show-giuliani-pompeo-contacts-ukraine-ambassador-n1090091
Nearly 100 pages of documents, including emails, were released by the watchdog group American Oversight late Friday.

State Department emails link Rudy Giuliani to Mike Pompeo

Nov. 23, 2019, 12:30 AM CST / Updated Nov. 23, 2019, 6:40 AM CST
By Phil Helsel and Abigail Williams

An ethics group late Friday published nearly 100 pages of previously unreleased State Department documents that the group says shows “a clear paper trail” between President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before a Ukraine ambassador was abruptly recalled.

The documents were published by American Oversight, which calls itself a non-partisan and nonprofit ethics watchdog and Freedom of Information Act litigator investigating the Trump administration.

They appear to show two calls between Giuliani and Pompeo in March, around a month before former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, an anti-corruption expert, was abruptly called back to the U.S. in April and then removed from the post.

David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs, testified on Wednesday that Pompeo and Giuliani spoke on the phone twice in late March.

The information released Friday "reveals a clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary Pompeo to facilitate Giuliani's smear campaign against a U.S. ambassador," Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight, said in a statement.......................................................

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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[KPN]

2. And what we'll hear from the entire GOP, "yeah, but it's not an impeachable offense"; everyone does

this", "it's normal".

[RainCaster]

3. Rachel will be all over this on Monday

Unless something more agredious turns up.