The real Ukraine controversy: an activist U.S. embassy and its adherence to the Geneva Convention

John Solomon Reports ^ | November 13, 2019 | John Solomon

[Cboldt]

-- Isn't this woman on the "impeachment" list of witnesses? --

Yes, she is the designated crier. Former ambassador Marie "Masha" Yovanovitch is scheduled to testify in a public hearing Nov. 15

[The Toll]

“Why is it that prior to the USSR disbanding, the fellow travelers within our State Dept were so soft on it? Now Russia is their new boogeyman and Red China is their darling”

The Left’s current hatred of Russia starts and ends with their love of sodomy and perversion.

[USS Alaska]

More recently, George Kent, the embassy's charge d'affaires in 2016 and now a deputy assistant secretary of state, confirmed in impeachment testimony that he personally signed the April 2016 letter demanding Ukraine drop the case against the Anti-Corruption Action Centre.

Was this bow tie gorje k_nt? Of course it was.

[McBuff]

Solution:
1. Only taxpayers vote.
2. Anyone receiving taxpayer's money, i.e. welfare, section 8 housing, AND government employees are ineligible to vote. This excludes military, law enforcement and first responders.
3. In order to vote, one must understand and affirm the necessary relationship between the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States and pass a test demonstrating that understanding.
4. Only paper ballots. . .NO MACHINES
5. Campaigns are limited to 30 days before election
6. Term limits for all
7. No pensions and just basic living expenses during period of service to the people.
8. Each elected official is allowed only one (1) staff member
9. After term in office is finished, that person MUST return to the state from which they were elected. They CANNOT remain in Washington, D.C. under any circumstance.

Ok, my unicorn has arrived to take me to my happy place. . .gotta go now!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ambassadors need to be fired and the State Department emptied out. Of course the State would tell us they are too important. I say the world won’t end if we just fire them all and then start from scratch severely downsizing as we go.

Hah. World end?

I do not think the world would even notice if the State Dept AND CIA were fired .... and all appointees required to re-interview for every position in the DOD as well.

[Liz]

(HAT TIP Qaz123)

Their opening statements should have been something like this......

I’m a career radical Leftist who worked under both Clintons and Obama.....a high-paid govt employee with several pensions that hates the United States, who has never done one thing to advance the interests of the United States.

Like my role models the Clintons and Obama, I’ve used my position to enrich my liberal friends, receive kickbacks and given away US taxpayer money to despots, tyrants and corrupt foreign governments without any accountability.

I have spent my professional career working overseas on the taxpayer dime, spending most of it getting drunk. I, nor any of my colleagues have ever cared about what any administration has wanted, except the Democratic Presidents, because ultimately we, the unelected and anonymous bureaucrats at State, control American Foreign policy.

We know it all and do it all. We do not care what anyone else thinks except Democrat Presidents and liberal foreign policy think tanks because that’s how we all skim money.

Anything I say here today is my liberal-biased opinion and interpretation of the situation even though I was not privy to the call, nor did I speak with anyone that was.

Everything I will share with you today is based on a conversation I had with someone in the lunchroom, who heard it from someone else, so I cannot actually attest to any facts. I can only attest to the many dog whistles I think I heard and my current emotional state.

.......ahem ahem ahem.....oops.....wrong script......

What I meant to say was.....

As a career Foreign Service Officer/Diplomat for the US Dept of State, although I do not agree with the foreign policy set forth by the current administration, I am here to testify to the committee on what I know. Even though everything I know is hearsay and from open source news outlets.”

[poinq]

This is a great article with all the supporting documents. Solomon does a great job. And if you read this and watched the testimony, there is no reason to think impeachment has any standing whatsoever.

[phs3]

And, while we’re at it. Relocate each alphabet agency HQ to a state that is the most suitable location for the work they are supposed to be doing.

[Robert A Cook PE]

May I copy that, pretty please and a cupcake with caffeine on top? 8<)

[Thank You Rush]

Inexcusable that none of the Republicans on the committee brought this up yesterday. Maybe they didn’t know it? Hogwash. They shouldn’t be relying on columnists to give them this or any other kind of information. They should be as informed as they can possibly be and if their staffers aren’t filling them in on matters as important as this, fire them!!

There is such a wealth of information just on these threads that they can use going forward in the next sessions. They apparently all need the help...

[philman_36]

...quoting the Ukrainian outlet without ever contacting Lutsenko to see if it was true.

No surprise there. It wouldn't fit the created narrative.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Robert A Cook PE.