After more than 48 hours of silence, Pompeo says State will investigate possible surveillance of ex-

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After more than 48 hours of silence, Pompeo says State will investigate possible surveillance of ex-US ambassador

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN

Updated 1:56 PM ET, Fri January 17, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/politics/pompeo-yovanovitch-surveillance/index.html

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Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday publicly committed to look into the possible surveillance of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch -- more than 48 hours after the evidence of potential monitoring emerged and more than 24 hours after Ukraine announced its own investigation into the matter.

"We will do everything we need to do to evaluate whether there was something that took place there," Pompeo told conservative radio host Tony Katz.

"I suspect that much of what's been reported will ultimately prove wrong, but our obligation, my obligation as secretary of state, is to make sure that we evaluate, investigate. Any time there is someone who posits that there may have been a risk to one of our officers, we'll obviously do that," Pompeo said.

Pompeo's comments Friday were the first public acknowledgment of an inquiry into Yovanoviitch's potential monitoring while serving in Kiev, although a senior State Department official told CNN that the investigation was officially launched by State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security on Tuesday night.

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[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Wait.....what?

How does a criminal investigate himself?

[Botany]

2. "We will do everything we need to do to evaluate whether there was something that took place there,"

OK then I guess we can all move along because there is nothing to see here.

*******

Good god in Butter "they" might have been very well setting up Marie Yovanovitch for a "hit"
and at the very least "they" forced her out in order to run criminal operations.

[gratuitous]

3. "We'll obviously do that"

Yeah, after the threats have been splashed all over the news for several days and Ukraine has already announced that they're launching an investigation into a plot against a U.S. ambassador, Secretary of State Pompeo finally decides to stir himself to feign interest, but he doesn't think there's anything to it. But, okay, I suppose, if I have to, and it's part of the job of my cabinet position, that I can look like I give a damn about threats against one of my ambassadors. I guess.

[stopdiggin]

4. yeah. so we'll all be holding our breath ... (nt)

[stopdiggin]

7. I WILL add

as a heads up to the DU community.
I think both Parnas and Hyde are extremely questionable sources. I would be very hesitant to go with any information provided here, without crosschecking and extreme vetting and confirmation from other directions. Hyde, because he is an incoherent gibbering idiot (and delusional drunk) -- and Parnas, because I think he is, and has been, playing a double game for years.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. Pompeo: "much of what has been reported will ultimately prove wrong"

Translation: My mind is made up; don't try to confuse me with the facts. My loyalty is to Herr Trump and not the people who work under me. I don't want to know if the life of one of my ambassadors has been threatened. Leave me alone -- let me go back into the gopher hole where I've been hiding.

He'd make a great juror at the impeachment trial.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. "Yeah, OK, if I have a few minutes next week I'll make a couple phone calls."

[marble falls]

8. And another brick falls out of the wall.