Former Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker will testify in the House’s impeachment inquiry this week even after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed to prevent State Department officials from doing so.
According to multiple reports on Tuesday, Volker still plans to give a deposition to the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight Committees on Thursday despite Pompeo’s defiant letter to the committee chairs declaring that he would “use all means at my disposal” to block their attempts to interview State Department staffers about the sprawling Ukraine scandal.
Volker resigned last week after a whistleblower complaint detailed how the ex-diplomat scrambled to clean up U.S.-Ukraine relations after Rudy Giuliani’s notorious contacts with Ukrainian officials “in an attempt to ‘contain the damage’ to U.S. national security.”
According to the complaint, Volker and other State Department officials were “deeply disturbed” by Giuliani and President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden.
Well, looks like some people get a “backbone” after they help Trump do his dirty work.
And the IG is testifying tomorrow, and Yavanovitch is now scheduled for 10/11. More info will definitely be coming out in the next days/weeks, despite Pompeo obstructing.
Former Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker will testify in the House’s impeachment inquiry this week even after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed to prevent State Department officials from doing so.
Weak sauce dude.
Basically when it dawn to them that the ones likely to go to Jail is them and not the Dotard or his henchmen.
Good…he probably resigned so he could testify when called, it sounds like he was never onboard with the whole scheme and was just doing what he was told. I can understand that, especially if he was trying to limit the damage instead of going along with the insanity. It is a very good sign that he’s going to ignore Pompeo and testify, that will give others the courage to do so as well…I suspect he will get attacked before his testimony to try to stop him, and maybe even have the DoJ try to throw up a roadblock, plus the committee Republicans will try to tear him apart for deigning to go out and tell the truth, but it sounds like he’s willing to put it out there and bear the consequences of telling the truth.
If we can get senior staffers like this to spill the beans, then we get lots of information they do not want out in the wild…and these people aren’t all Trump acolytes, they are just doing their jobs and trying to survive, so their loyalty is to the nation. It’s about to be tested, we’ll see how many of them stand up to the administration and tell us what has been going on.