Saturday, December 14, 2019

First impeachment casualty for Democrats?

8 comments:

Commonsense said...

That would the worst set back for Pelosi.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Unprincipled people who put service to political self above country can be found in both parties.
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Meanwhile.

Judge Orders State Department To Provide Withheld Ukraine Documents

Officials had decided on their own not to release records from the period when Donald Trump lifted his freeze on military aid to Ukraine.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the State Department to release documents concerning Ukraine it had previously withheld.

Christopher Cooper, the U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, said the department arbitrarily limited its search for documents it had previously been ordered to release to the period before Aug. 2 — PRIOR to President Donald Trump lifting his freeze on military funds to Ukraine as he pressured the country’s president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.

Judge Cooper ruled that the department had “not adequately justified” why it used the early date, and said its records through Oct. 18 should be released no later than Jan. 8.

Among the documents that were withheld were communication records concerning Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

State had previously failed to search for documents dated after Aug. 2, 2019. The court says searches must cover up through Oct. 18, 2019.

Nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight, which brought the suit, celebrated the ruling.

“Despite the Trump administration’s obstruction of Congress, the paper trail of the Ukraine pressure campaign is continuing to come to light,” Clark Pettig, a spokesman for the group, said in a statement to HuffPost.

“The time period covered by Friday’s court order includes some of the most critical events under scrutiny in the impeachment investigation, including the creation and release of the whistleblower report, and the eventual lifting of the freeze on aid to Ukraine,” he said.

To battle a similar stonewalling case, the Center for Public Integrity went back to court Friday. It demanded that an earlier order for the Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget to release records concerning Ukraine be enforced. Released documents were so heavily redacted that they were nearly impossible to read.

“Defendants’ production makes a mockery” of the court’s order, as well as the Freedom of Information Act and the
American public’s right to be informed of what their government officials are doing and why they are doing it,” the organization argued. "Every substantive exchange between officials was blacked out."

Anonymous said...

This news is so bad, Jane had to spam.

This is so good. It is going so poorly, her members are jumping ship.

Caliphate4vr said...

American Leftists Believed Corbyn’s Inevitable Victory Would Be Their Model

Anonymous said...

Polls showed that election was a "dead heat" and "too close to call".

A remarkable Defeat of Socialist.

Anonymous said...

This is one dumb cunt.

"Jill Biden defended her son, Hunter, by stating he “did nothing wrong, and that’s the bottom line.”

Biden said, “I know my son. I know my son’s character. Hunter did nothing wrong, and that’s the bottom line.”

She is treating Hunter like a cocaine addicted baby boy. She should be so happy with the shower of grand babies.
Will the two Hunter kiddos know each other as step siblings ?

Commonsense said...

American Leftists Believed Corbyn’s Inevitable Victory Would Be Their Model

Oooo! That didn't age well.

Anonymous said...

About now is the right time for This President to copy the Obimbo/Biden model and direct the FBI/CIA to launch investigations, put spies in each camp and get wire taps, all very legal after all.