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Mike 03

(16,616 posts) Mon Oct 7, 2019, 12:17 PM Oct 2019

State Department official declines to appear for deposition

Arrrrggh.

From the WaPo Live Updating:

Republicans stepped up their attacks Monday on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over the impeachment inquiry following late-night tweets from President Trump suggesting that she should be removed from office, not him.

The broadsides came as a State Department official declined to appear Monday morning at a planned deposition by House investigators seeking to learn more about Trump’s efforts to press the leader of Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

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9 a.m.: State Department official does not appear at scheduled deposition

George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state in the European and Eurasian Bureau, did not appear for a deposition before three House committees scheduled for Monday morning.

“No, Democrats originally scheduled him for deposition today, but his appearance has not yet been worked out or confirmed,” said a person familiar with the planned deposition who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Link to WaPo live updating: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-live-updates/2019/10/07/cec4666e-e873-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html

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State Department official declines to appear for deposition (Original Post) Mike 03 Oct 2019 OP

A little more: Mike 03 Oct 2019 #1

You would think that people in Congress know that the Con was posting the usual shit malaise Oct 2019 #2

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Stall, delay, block, stonewall, lie, sue maxsolomon Oct 2019 #4

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)

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Reply to Mike 03 (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 12:25 PM

Oct 2019

Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo balked at the timing of several planned depositions of State Department officials, saying House Democrats were not giving them adequate time to prepare.

House investigators are planning to hear Tuesday from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union who has become a central figure in the probe, and Friday from Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was recalled from the post early.

Discussions remain ongoing with other State Department officials, a Democratic aide said.