Newly released docs reveal the lengths to which the Trump administration tried to stop Ukraine ambas
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On Wednesday, watchdog group American Oversight published 42 new documents turned over by the State Department regarding the scheme to use military aid to pressure Ukraine into producing dirt against former Vice President Joe Biden.
One of the key facts detailed in the documents is a series of emails in which a State Department attorney instructed former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch not to testify in the impeachment inquiry in the House — an instruction she emphatically rebuffed.On Wednesday, watchdog group American Oversight published 42 new documents turned over by the State Department regarding the scheme to use military aid to pressure Ukraine into producing dirt against former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Newly released docs reveal the lengths to which the Trump administration tried to stop Ukraine ambassador from testifying
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/newly-released-docs-reveal-the-lengths-to-which-the-trump-administration-tried-to-stop-ukraine-ambassador-from-testifying/
On Wednesday, watchdog group American Oversight published 42 new documents turned over by the State Department regarding the scheme to use military aid to pressure Ukraine into producing dirt against former Vice President Joe Biden.
One of the key facts detailed in the documents is a series of emails in which a State Department attorney instructed former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch not to testify in the impeachment inquiry in the House — an instruction she emphatically rebuffed.
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The email exchange does show a State Department lawyer telling an attorney for ex Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch NOT to testify before the House impeachment inquiry
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The lawyer for ex-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch had a firm reply: She is going to testify anyway. "She is unable to obey your most recent directive" The rest is history.
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The outlines of this were known in October. But until now, I at least had not seen these letters back and forth between the lawyers. Here was a statement put out in October, when State tried to stop Yovanovitch from testifying.
Yovanovich, who was dismissed at the apparent urging of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, raised concerns about the pressure campaign on Ukraine, and gave crucial testimony to House Democrats that contributed to the decision to pass the articles of impeachment.
