Home and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman announces contempt proceedings against Secretary of State on Friday Mike Pompeo
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Rip. Eliot Angel
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Allegations of contempt relate to two subpainas. First, the State Department is drawn to a September request for documents related to the House impeachment probe in September. President Trump
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The second subpoena is related to the thousands of documents provided by the State Department to former Republican-controlled Senate committees related to their former vice president’s investigation. JB Biden
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Angel said Friday that Pompeo refused to comply with the subpoints, leaving him with no option but to initiate contempt proceedings.
Engel said in a statement that the committee had no choice but to initiate a series of resolutions to find Secretary Pompeo in contempt of Congress, with the secretary ignoring the two legitimate powers of the secretary in matters directly linked to US foreign policy towards Ukraine.
The New York Democrat added, “It seems that the fee he owns, the department he runs, the employee he oversees, and the taxpayer dollars he pays for it all are for his personal and political benefit.”
Engel said Pompeo was willing to work on a GOP-led investigation in the Senate because Republicans want to “expand.” [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s declaratory conspiracy theories about President Trump’s political enemies “, while refusing to provide similar information to his panel.
Angle argued that Pompeo was helping both the Republican-led Senate and Russia’s agenda by spreading unsatisfactory claims about Biden’s role in the 2020 election.
In a 45-page letter to the House committee last week denying subpena, the state department said it had no obligation to produce the documents, as the panel was investigating Pompeo, not the allegations against Biden.
Angel described the response as an attempt to get his committee to support the conspiracy theory against the Democratic presidential candidate.
“Mr. Pompeo’s final response clarifies where he stands: if the committee announces that we are also investigating the same conspiracy theory that has been reintroduced,” Angel said.
The contempt action is the latest clash between Angel and Pompeo, in which the out-of-town chairman has been investigated. Other aspects Of the conduct of the Secretary in the State Department.
Earlier this week, a subcommittee of the panel of observers and investigations began investigating whether Pompeo violated the Hatch Act by addressing the Republican National Convention during an official diplomatic trip to Jerusalem.
The hate action further clarifies the divide between Democrats and Republicans ahead of the November election and works to paint Biden to support corruption in Ukraine during the Obama administration.
Sen. Ron Johnson
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Critics of the investigation argue that Johnson seeks to hurt Trump’s Democratic opponent, and the president’s allies are inclined to help the state government.
Johnson has said the findings of the investigation will likely be released in September.
The contempt proceedings against Pompeo took place in the same month that William Ivana, director of the National Defense and Security Center, said Russia was trying to injure Biden and others, whom he considered an anti-Russian “establishment,” cited by Angel. . Friday.
“Some actors affiliated with the Kremlin are also seeking to increase President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television.”
“For example, pro-Russian Ukrainian MP Rindri Derkach is spreading allegations about corruption, including the candidacy of former Vice President Biden and the weakening of the Democratic Party – including disclosing leaked phone calls.”
Updated at 1:13 p.m.
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