A former CIA Officer Tracks Ukrainegate
New information surfaced today that investigators who have been looking into Rudy Giuliani’s business dealings in Ukraine have also launched a counterintelligence investigation. The counterintelligence part of the investigation indicates that FBI and criminal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking at a broader set of issues related to Giuliani, President Donald…
George P. Kent, a senior diplomat who was at least theoretically in charge of Ukraine policy, is testifying today behind closed doors to House impeachment investigators. Kent testified despite being directed by the State Department not to do so. UPDATE: Kent has told investigators that he was cut out of…
The New York Times is reporting tonight that, according to the testimony of Fiona Hill today, this summer an angry John Bolton became so agitated over what he called a “rogue operation” in Ukraine that he told aide Fiona Hill to alert White House lawyers. The sharp exchange occurred July…
President Trump’s former Russia advisor Fiona Hill is testifying today before Congress, during a week that will see a steady stream of witness testimony and document production deadlines. Also today, Rudy Giuliani associate Semyin Kislin is expected to testify. Here is the lineup for the week. Monday, October 14, 2019…
At a campaign rally Friday night in Louisiana, President Donald Trump said Democrats are corrupt and know they can not win so they are pursuing an “illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.” “We’ve been living through this so-called insurance policy because they know we are putting a stop to their…
It turns out impeachment, as Clare Malone writes at 538.com, is really a public relation operation about politicians trying to sell the public on their version of events that can be interpreted in more than one way. The founders set it up that way, leaving “high crimes and misdemeanors” intentionally…
Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland will testify that the now-famous “no quid pro quo” text which he sent to US Charge D’Affaires Bill Taylor on September 9, 2019, was in fact dictated to him by President Donald J. Trump. This is according to a Washington Post report by…
ABC News is reporting this hour that President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy GIuliani is the subject of a criminal investigation relating to his relationship with two associates arrested yesterday — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. ABC cites “two sources familiar with the matter” and states that the investigation is being…
Ousted career diplomat Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch is testiying to Congress in apparent defiance of both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Yovanovitch told impeachment investigators that a top State Department official informed her that President Trump had pushed for her removal for months prior to her…
The day began with the news that Guiliania associates, Soviet-born Florida businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, had been arrested at Dulles airport and charged with conspiracy and campaign finance violations. Over the course of the day more details came out — including the fact that they had met with…