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  • State Dept. officials told they broke law by monitoring Americans during Ukraine scandal

    10/06/2020 4:42:48 AM PDT · by EVO X · 37 replies
    Just the News ^ | October 5, 2020 | John Solomon
    State Department officials were explicitly ordered in spring 2019 to stop tracking 13 prominent Americans' social media accounts for information about the Joe Biden-Ukraine scandal because the monitoring violated federal law, according to emails that were originally redacted to hide the concerns from the American public. "We are barred by law from actively monitoring the accounts of American citizens in aggregate — and particularly from identifying and monitoring individual, selected accounts," a State Department official wrote in an April 1, 2019 email to officials in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Kiev The unredacted emails, obtained by Just the News,...
  • AXIOS: Report: State Dept. found WH had no legal ground to block Ukraine aid

    11/10/2019 6:53:10 AM PST · by tcrlaf · 95 replies
    Axios ^ | 11-10-2019 | Orion Rummler
    State Department lawyers found President Trump and the White House Office of Management and Budget had no legal ground to block the department sending military aid to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. What's happening: The State Department "quietly authorized releasing $141 million" of the approximately $400 million withheld by the White House several days before Sept. 11 — the date Trump says he released the funds, per Bloomberg. The White House hold on funds "provoked consternation, if not panic, at the State and Defense Departments," Bloomberg reports — "because the law required them to spend the money by the end of the...