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https://www.justsecurity.org/68614/exclusive-new-unredacted-emails-show-how-deeply-omb-misled-congress-on-ukraine/
by Kate Brannen
February 11, 2020
Can we call you in 5, DoD is being extraordinarily difficult.
It was almost 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 12, and Mark Paoletta, the general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wanted to talk to his boss, Russell Vought, the acting director of OMB, about President Donald Trumps hold on military assistance for Ukraine.
When the Trump administration released this email under court order to the nonprofit group American Oversight on Jan. 22, Paolettas complaint about DoD was redacted.
Just Security obtained this email without the redactions, as well as the others released on Jan. 22, under the condition that they not be reprinted. Similar to the unredacted emails Just Security reported on in January, these new emails shed further light on the standoff that took place between the Pentagon and OMB over Trumps hold on Ukraine funding.
They confirm that OMB, including the general counsels office, was fully in the loop about the Pentagons concerns and took active steps to bury them. They also expose the extent to which OMB misled, and even lied to, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a congressional investigative body, as the GAO tried to understand the circumstances surrounding the funding hold.
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by Kate Brannen
February 11, 2020
Can we call you in 5, DoD is being extraordinarily difficult.
It was almost 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 12, and Mark Paoletta, the general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wanted to talk to his boss, Russell Vought, the acting director of OMB, about President Donald Trumps hold on military assistance for Ukraine.
When the Trump administration released this email under court order to the nonprofit group American Oversight on Jan. 22, Paolettas complaint about DoD was redacted.
Just Security obtained this email without the redactions, as well as the others released on Jan. 22, under the condition that they not be reprinted. Similar to the unredacted emails Just Security reported on in January, these new emails shed further light on the standoff that took place between the Pentagon and OMB over Trumps hold on Ukraine funding.
They confirm that OMB, including the general counsels office, was fully in the loop about the Pentagons concerns and took active steps to bury them. They also expose the extent to which OMB misled, and even lied to, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a congressional investigative body, as the GAO tried to understand the circumstances surrounding the funding hold.
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JustSecurity.org: Exclusive: New Unredacted Emails Show How Deeply OMB Misled Congress on Ukraine (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
OP
Schiff: They confirm OMB misled Congress about DOD's objections to the illegal hold on Ukraine aid.
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
#4
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)1. I'm reading through these now
round up a bunch of them and charge them with lying to Congress and Fraud
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)3. Lying to GAO is really bad, isn't it?
Asking because, despite a cursory Google search, I'm not finding what penalties are in place when a government official lies to the GAO?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)2. Who cares. Lying to Congress is not a crime in the Trump-administration.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)4. Schiff: They confirm OMB misled Congress about DOD's objections to the illegal hold on Ukraine aid.
Link to tweet
Adam Schiff ✔@RepAdamSchiff
At trial, we held up these redacted emails and asked Senators if they wanted to know what Trump was hiding.
They didnt. Now we know why:
They confirm OMB misled Congress about DODs objections to the illegal hold on Ukraine aid.
The truth will come out.
Kate Brannen✔@K8brannen
The impeachment trial is over but the evidence is still coming out.
New unredacted emails confirm how deeply OMB misled Congress.
Me for @just_security: https://www.justsecurity.org/68614/exclusive-new-unredacted-emails-show-how-deeply-omb-misled-congress-on-ukraine/
2:50 PM - Feb 11, 2020
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)5. So they knew, they just don't care