Even as Dems and their propaganda machine in the MSM try to
shelter former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch,
evidence is coming forward she used State Department resources to investigate
journalists & Republicans with a favorable relationship to President Trump.
Judicial Watch uses FOIA to
acquire facts Dems/MSM try to hide.
JRH 10/16/19
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JW INVESTIGATES IF OUSTED UKRAINE AMBASSADOR ORDERED
STATE DEPT. TO MONITOR JOURNALISTS, TRUMP ALLIES
October 15, 2019
Judicial Watch is investigating if prominent conservative
figures, journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump were
unlawfully monitored by the State Department in Ukraine at the request of
ousted U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, an Obama appointee. Yovanovitch
testified “in secret” to the House impeachment inquiry against Trump on Friday,
October 11, 2019. Her “secret” testimony was leaked to the New York Times
during the hearing.
Judicial Watch has obtained information indicating
Yovanovitch may have violated laws and government regulations by ordering
subordinates to target certain U.S. persons using State Department resources.
Yovanovitch reportedly ordered monitoring keyed to the following search terms:
Biden, Giuliani, Soros and Yovanovitch. Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
with the State Department and will continue gathering facts from government
sources.
Prior to being recalled as ambassador to Ukraine in the
spring Yovanovitch reportedly created a list of individuals who were to be
monitored via social media and other means. Ukraine embassy staff made
the request to the Washington D.C. headquarters office of the department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
After several days, Yovanovitch’s staff was informed that
the request was illegal and the monitoring either ceased or was concealed via
the State Department Global Engagement Center, which has
looser restrictions on collecting information.
“This is not an obscure rule, everyone in public diplomacy
or public affairs knows they can’t make lists and monitor U.S. citizens unless
there is a major national security reason,” according to a senior State
Department official. If the illicit operation occurred, it seems to indicate a
clear political bias against the president and his supporters. Yovanovitch, a
career diplomat who has also led American embassies in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia,
was appointed ambassador to Ukraine by Obama in 2016. She was recalled by
the State Department in May and remains a State Department employee in
Washington D.C.
In the public records request to the State
Department Judicial Watch asks for any and all records regarding, concerning,
or related to the monitoring of any U.S.-based journalist, reporter, or media
commentator by any employee or office of the Department of State between
January 1, 2019 and the present. That includes all records pertaining to the
scope of the monitoring to be conducted and individuals subject to it as well
as records documenting the information collected pursuant to the monitoring.
The FOIA request also asks for all records of communication between any official,
employee or representative of the State Department and any other individual or
entity.
The prominent conservative figures — journalists and persons
with ties to President Donald Trump — allegedly unlawfully monitored by the
State Department in Ukraine at the request of ousted U.S. Ambassador Marie
Yovanovitch include:
Jack Posobiec
Donald Trump Jr.
Laura Ingraham
Sean Hannity
Michael McFaul (Obama’s ambassador to Russia)
Dan Bongino
Ryan Saavedra
Rudy Giuliani
Sebastian Gorka
John Solomon
Lou Dobbs
Pamella Geller
Sara Carter [Bold text Blog Editor’s]
Judicial Watch continues its investigation of these matters
and will update its reporting as the situation unfolds.
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