Posted on 11/15/2019 4:51:02 PM PST by Stayfree
Back in May 2018, then-House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggesting you might have made comments unflattering or unsupportive of the president and should be recalled. Setting aside that Sessions is a Republican and might even have donors interested in Ukraine policy, were you ever questioned about his concerns? At any time have you or your embassy staff made comments that could be viewed as unsupportive or critical of President Trump and his policies?
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Some very excellent questions — and the Repubs didn’t ask a single one of them. The Repubs today seemed to be afraid of being too hard on the ambassador cause they didn’t really go after her. Quite different than the last hearing with the “dynamic duo”
Is she an Obamunist
Great questions for her at the Senate “trial.” Under oath, of course.
Bump for John Solomon.
On the phone call of July 26th, the President of Ukraine said she was a Poroshenko fan and not himself. And I think that's why she was recalled....right after the election of Zelensky.
And no big deal...she only had a couple weeks until her gig was up anyways.
Well, the GOP was gaveled down on a number of things, and Schiff was absolutely odious towards “that woman” (Stefanik). Can you imagine if a Republican had said that to a Dem? So I don’t think GOP questioning was as aggressive as earlier.
In any case, I think a lot of people actually feel bad for Yovanovitch, who opposed Trump - which it was not her business to do - but was also being manipulated by more important Obama holdovers in the State Dept. She is beginning to realize that she’s under the Dem bus. They’ll drop her in a heartbeat and probably already have, because she sure didn’t give them a win.
Which side advanced?
Ours, I think. I only heard bits of it, but she sure didn’t sound like she had anything important or that she even wanted to be there. Fortunately, she didn’t do the crying thing...
"I'M ABOUT TO GAVEL YOU DOWN": Schiff warns Jordan during impeachment hearing
Yeah, they babied her, probably because they didn’t want to be perceived as picking on a woman.
And, where the hell did they get that lawyer, and why was he picked to do the questioning? He was a dud. Amazing that they didn’t find someone better.
That was simply the best thing ever said in any of these hearings. “Our indulgence with you ran out a long time ago, Mr. Chairman.” All with a smile on his face. Jim Jordan is the best...
Thanks for posting the link - I would never have found it....
You bet. FOX 10 Phoenix is doing spectacular work with these clips.
I think, when all is revealed, people will not feel even a little bit sorry for her.
No one should ever feel sorry for any 'career bureaucrat'....they are interested in one thing....sustaining positions of power. She's had 33 years gaming the system for her benefit very well.
I noticed she couldn’t sit still in her chair and looked really uncomfortable with Jordan’s questions -— I suspect they struck too close to home.
I am listening to the first 45 minutes of the hearing. My god if I wanted a tough as nails person there, ready to lay down the law to another country to advance the ideals/desires of the USA as seen by the POTUS, she would be the Pollyanna candidate. She even referenced State being the tip of the spear...I thought she was going to cry (again). If she interfaces with the CIA...
She is coming across as a bureaucrat, who is just a little over their head. Mike Pompeo must have really had problems with her lack of “stones”. She must have been the instigator of the twitter campaign to get back the girls from Boko Harum.
DK
If anyone missed Jordan’s questioning yesterday, here it is. In a world even halfway sane the whole charade would have been scrubbed after this doozey.
the reason they are having her testify to create the narrative, completely false of course, that President Trump was installing his people in there to assist in executing the bribery. Is that what they are calling it now?
1.Ambassador Yovanovitch, at any time while you served in Ukraine did any officials in Kiev ever express concern to you that President Trump might be withholding foreign aid assistance to get political investigations started? Did President Trump ever ask you as America’s top representative in Kiev to pressure Ukrainians to start an investigation about Burisma Holdings or the Bidens?
2.What was the Ukrainians’ perception of President Trump after he allowed lethal aid to go to Ukraine in 2018?
3. In the spring and summer of 2019, did you ever become aware of any U.S. intelligence or U.S. treasury concerns raised about incoming Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his affiliation or proximity to certain oligarchs? Did any of those concerns involve what the IMF might do if a certain oligarch who supported Zelensky returned to power and regained influence over Ukraine’s national bank?
4.Back in May 2018, then-House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggesting you might have made comments unflattering or unsupportive of the president and should be recalled. Setting aside that Sessions is a Republican and might even have donors interested in Ukraine policy, were you ever questioned about his concerns? At any time have you or your embassy staff made comments that could be viewed as unsupportive or critical of President Trump and his policies?
5.John Solomon reported at The Hill and your colleagues have since confirmed in testimony that the State Department helped fund a nonprofit called the Anti-Corruption Action Centre of Ukraine that also was funded by George Soros’ main charity. That nonprofit, also known as AnTac, was identified in a 2014 Soros foundation strategy document as critical to reshaping Ukraine to Mr. Soros’ vision. Can you explain what role your embassy played in funding this group and why State funds would flow to it? And did any one consider the perception of mingling tax dollars with those donated by Soros, a liberal ideologue who spent millions in 2016 trying to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump?
6.In March 2019, Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko gave an on-the-record, videotaped interview to The Hill alleging that during a 2016 meeting you discussed a list of names of Ukrainian nationals and groups you did not want to see Ukrainian prosecutors target. Your supporters have since suggested he recanted that story. Did you or your staff ever do anything to confirm he had recanted or changed his story, such as talk to him, or did you just rely on press reports?
7.Now that both the New York Times and The Hill have confirmed that Lutsenko stands by his account and has not recanted, how do you respond to his concerns? And setting aide the use of the word “list,” is it possible that during that 2016 meeting with Mr. Lutsenko you discussed the names of certain Ukrainians you did not want to see prosecuted, investigated or harassed?
8.Your colleagues, in particular Mr. George Kent, have confirmed to the House Intelligence Committee that the U.S. embassy in Kiev did, in fact, exert pressure on the Ukrainian prosecutors office not to prosecute certain Ukrainian activists and officials. These efforts included a letter Mr. Kent signed urging Ukrainian prosecutors to back off an investigation of the aforementioned group AnTac as well as engaged in conversations about certain Ukrainians like Parliamentary member Sergey Leschenko, journalist Vitali Shabunin and NABU director Artem Sytnyk. Why was the US. Embassy involved in exerting such pressure and did any of these actions run afoul of the Geneva Convention’s requirement that foreign diplomats avoid becoming involved in the internal affairs of their host country?
9.On March 5 of this year, you gave a speech in which you called for the replacement of Ukraine’s top anti-corruption prosecutor. That speech occurred in the middle of the Ukrainian presidential election and obviously raised concerns among some Ukrainians of internal interference prohibited by the Geneva Convention. In fact, one of your bosses, Under Secretary David Hale, got questioned about those concerns when he arrived in country a few days later. Why did you think it was appropriate to give advice to Ukrainians on an internal personnel matter and did you consider then or now the potential concerns your comments might raise about meddling in the Ukrainian election or the country’s internal affairs?
10.If the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States suddenly urged us to fire Attorney General Bill Bar or our FBI director, would you think that was appropriate?
11.At any time since December 2015, did you or your embassy ever have any contact with Vice President Joe Biden, his office or his son Hunter Biden concerning Burisma Holdings or an investigation into its owner Mykola Zlochevsky?
12.At any time since you were appointed ambassador to Ukraine, did you or your embassy have any contact with the following Burisma figures: Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, lawyer John Buretta, Blue Star strategies representatives Sally Painter and Karen Tramontano, or former Ukrainian embassy official Andrii Telizhenko?
13.John Solomon obtained documents showing Burisma representatives were pressuring the State Department in February 2016 to help end the corruption allegations against the company and were invoking Hunter Biden’s name as part of their effort. Did you ever subsequently learn of these contacts and did any one at State — including but not limited to Secretary Kerry, Undersecretary Novelli, Deputy Secretary Blinken or Assistant Secretary Nuland — ever raise Burisma with you?
14.What was your embassy’s assessment of the corruption allegations around Burisma and why the company may have hired Hunter Biden as a board member in 2014?
15.In spring 2019 your embassy reportedly began monitoring briefly the social media communications of certain people viewed as supportive of President Trump and gathering analytics about them. Who were those people? Why was this done? Why did it stop? And did anyone in the State Department chain of command ever suggest targeting Americans with State resources might be improper or illegal?
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