Posted on 08/01/2020 3:17:13 AM PDT by Libloather
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) issued a subpoena Friday to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanding tens of thousands of documents that the State Department provided to Senate Republicans as part of their investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son's business dealings in Ukraine.
Engel accused Pompeo of using State Department resources to advance a smear campaign against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and demanded documents provided to GOP senators be made available to House Democrats.
“Secretary Pompeo has turned the State Department into an arm of the Trump campaign and he’s not even trying to disguise it,” Engel said in a statement. “After trying to stonewall virtually every oversight effort by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the last two years, Mr. Pompeo is more than happy to help Senate Republicans advance their conspiracy theories about the Bidens. I want to see the full record of what the department has sent to the Senate and I want the American people to see it too.”
The House committee is looking to obtain 16,080 pages of documents the State Department provided Senate Republicans related to the former vice president, Hunter Biden and dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
The committee has given Pompeo until Aug. 7 to comply with the request.
The documents are related to a Senate GOP probe involving the upper chamber's Finance Committee and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee focused on a widely discredited narrative that during the Obama administration Biden tried to remove Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to prevent an investigation into Burisma and his son's role at the company.
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“Governmental Affairs Committee focused on a widely discredited narrative that during the Obama administration Biden tried to remove Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to prevent an investigation into Burisma and his son’s role at the company.”
The “SOB” is on video bragging about it. The only thing “discredited” is the media.
***Engel accused Pompeo of using State Department resources to advance a smear campaign against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and demanded documents provided to GOP senators be made available to House Democrats.**
Don’t do the crime if you don’t want to be in the seat of guilty.. He publicly said he threatened and got his way...
The dems are going to go full bore on Barr being Trump’s back up..
The dems have all the media and not satisfied.
FOOT-DRAG ON THOSE JERKS as much as their Deep State foot-drags whenever somebody (e.g., Judicial Watch) on our side requests documents. Don’t give them anything until after the election.
Eliot Engel lost the 2020 primary to Jamaal Bowman.
I am SURE that after the Republican Senate got to see the documents, this became an “ongoing investigation”, AND Exective Privilege now applies.
Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be done, Barry O’Bungler??
I hope Secretary Pompeo releases each document to the House and to the public at the same time. Transparency!
And, rather than let the Dems set a “document release schedule” that supports their false narrative, instead release documents by their “relevance” to the Bidens’ illegal enrichment schemes.
If Hunter’s employment contract and his personnel files from Burisma name some other “dirty” Democrats, Americans should know who they are.
Didn’t this ass, Engle, lose his Primary election a month or so ago?
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