Former Ukrainian Ambassador and Impeachment Witness "Masha" Yavonovitch Met With Burisma Officials Despite Sworn Congressional Testimony That She Knew Almost Nothing About the Firm

The Deep State Resistance Crew lying under oath?

Come on, that's silly. All True Conservatives can vouch for all one million federal civil servants as being unquestionably honest.

(You can always tell who the True Conservatives are by how quickly they swear that liberals are incapable of lying.)

She failed to mention this meeting when all manner of questions about her knowledge of and contacts with Burisma were asked.

During President Trump’s impeachment, former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified to Congress that she knew little beyond an initial briefing and "press reports" about Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas firm that had hired Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and was dogged by a corruption investigation.

"It just wasn't a big deal," she declared under oath on Oct. 11, 2019.

But newly unearthed State Department memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show Yovanovitch's embassy in Kiev, including the ambassador herself, was engaged in several discussions and meetings about Burisma as the gas firm scrambled during the 2016 election and transition to settle a long-running corruption investigation and polish its image before President Trump took office.

She was directly involved in talks with Burisma about resolving corruption charges against it, which, if you remember, was exactly the thing that was being asked about.

Yovanovitch, for instance, was specifically warned in an email by her top deputy in September 2016 -- three years before her testimony -- that Burisma had hired an American firm with deep Democratic connections called Blue Star Strategies to "rehabilitate the reputation" of the Ukrainian gas firm and that it had placed “Hunter Biden on its board,” the memos show.

She also met directly with a representative for Burisma in her embassy office, less than 45 days before Trump took office, a contact she did not mention during her impeachment deposition.

The discussions about Burisma inside Yovanovitch's embassy were so extensive, in fact, that they filled more than 160 pages of emails, memos and correspondence in fall 2016 alone, according to the State Department records obtained under FOIA by the conservative group Citizens United.

And now?

@CBS_Herridge

#NEW House Judiciary @Jim_Jordan requests clean copies/no redactions State Dept records. "The documents released pursuant to FOIA provide additional details about the Obama-Biden Administration’s actions toward Burisma." Biden campaign not commenting. @CBSNews @BoKnowsNews

NeverTrump, the media, and Democrats (but I repeat myself thrice) have sure changed their position on the need for absolutely-boundless investigations into allegations of government corruption and abuse of office.

Now such investigations are themselves corrupt and criminal!

Who could have seen this coming. Who indeed.

posted by Ace at 06:42 PM

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