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Pompeo says State Dept. officials won’t show up for scheduled impeachment depositions this week
By artappraiser on Tue, 10/01/2019 - 2:30pm |In a fiery letter to the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said five officials scheduled to testify this week would not be made available until “we obtain further clarity on these matters.”
By Karen De Young @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 1
[....] The refusal, in a letter to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), described the demand for depositions by five officials who played a role in U.S. relations with Ukraine as “an attempt to intimidate, bully, and treat improperly, the distinguished professionals of the Department of State.”
A spokesman for the committee had no immediate comment [.....]
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pompeo-says-state-dept-officials-wont-show-up-for-scheduled-impeachment-depositions-this-week/2019/10/01/b350f8a2-e459-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html
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