Pompeo Promises Probe Into Alleged Yovanovitch Surveillance

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo finally promised an investigation into alleged surveillance of former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch Friday, saying that it’s his “obligation” to “investigate” and “evaluate,” though he doubts that she was truly being tracked.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1285461
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A promise of a Trumpie is the same as a promise from a junkie.

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“Any time there is someone who posits that there may have been a risk to one of our officers, we’ll obviously do that…”

“… but, not until after the story breaks in the news.”

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It’s so much harder to carry out one’s “obligation” to “investigate” and “evaluate,” when one is an essential part of the caper that led up to the potential activities in question. IOW, he was/is part of the crew involved in the Ukrainegate.

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A promise of a trumpie is worth LESS than a promise of a junkie. Way less. At least when a junkie makes a promise, he or she may actually intend to keep the promise at the time of making. Pompeo doesn’t even have a weak good intention, he just wants to shut everybody up. And if anything DOES happen to Ambassador Yovanavitch, Mikey’s house should be the first place the police check.

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Yovanovitch testified that the State Dept whisked her out of Kiev because of concerns about her ‘security’. Of course Pompeo knew what Rudy was doing, all of it.

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A probe? The entire Trump Badministration needs a group colonoscopy. Hourly…

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Pompeo also asserted in both interviews that he’d never met Lev Parnas, the associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani whose messages,

*“I suspect that much of what’s been reported will ultimately prove wrong, but our obligation, my obligation as secretary of state, is to make sure that we evaluate, investigate,”

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Pompeo’s silence has prompted anger from some foreign policy experts and questions about how much he knew, and when.

Reporter: “Secretary Pompeo, when did you first learn of the alleged surveillance of former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch?”

Pompeo: “You’re a liberal hack—I’m not talking to you.”

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An ‘in house’ State Dept ‘investigation’ will have no credibilitly. It has to be done by the FBI (and even then, this would be under the direction of Agent Orange’s Consigliere, and Roy Cohn wannabe, Bill Barr.

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Pompous Probe vs. Pompous Cover-up?

Po-ta-to Po-tah-to.

Let the shredding commence!

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Oh it’ll be in depth

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Well… the drugs they give you are pretty good and will definitely wipe out your memory.
The new Republican defense, “I don’t recall, I was having a colonoscopy that day.”

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OT, but Trump is now trying to buy reelection…

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But of course. :smirk:

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True to his word, critical eyewitnesses are being processed as we speak.

Fargo-Leg_chipper

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I think you’re being unfair to junkies. They at least try.

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What complete bottom feeders these Trumpsters are…they allow a woman to be denigrated, smeared, insulted by the POTUS she SERVES, call her a liar and then FINALLY when some Russian pal of Rudy’s turns on them they decide to INVESTIGATE??? This is someone that WORKED for them.

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Pompeo Promises Probe Into Alleged Yovanovitch Surveillance

Yeah, I totally believe it will be a honest investigation. And yes I have some lovely property by Lake Pripyat in Ukraine to sell to you, pristine, lots of wildlife too.

It’s good that Captain Pompeo didn’t actually serve in a war. He would have sold his cavalry troop to the enemy.

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Shouldn’t he just ask Trump if Rudy had her stalked for him?

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