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WOW: American Oversight announces that it has obtained 192 pages from OMB *tonight* in response to a FOIA on Ukraine military aid. americanoversight.org/document/omb-r…
Docs are *heavily* redacted, but a couple suggest some GOP lawmakers began asking about Ukraine assistance in mid-August, including Sen. Inhofe and Rep. Cook.
ALSO: There's a ton of email traffic on July 25, the same day the Ukraine hold was formally put into place (though it had begun weeks earlier) and the same day as trump's call with Zelensky.
More correspondence from GOP lawmakers: Rep. Mac Thornberry's chief of staff wondering what's up with the Ukraine assistance, Sen. Portman's office raising questions and letter from Paul Cook.
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Kyle Cheney
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HMMM: Department of Energy released part of a single document tonight in response to American Overisght's request for some key Ukraine info from May 10-May 24, 2019 (Zelensky's inauguration timeframe).
americanoversight.org/document/doe-r…
BUT ... The search actually turned up 5 relevant documents.

But DOE sent four of them to the State Department.

The request included a lot of Biden/Burisma/Giuliani related keywords + communications from Perry and his then-chief of staff Brian McCormack on the subjects.
Here's what DOE's response indicated:
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NEW: Trump’s impeachment defense often seemed less about convincing senators to acquit than exacting payback on political adversaries he perceives at having landed him on trial in the first place.

Analysis w/ @AndrewDesiderio

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
Trump’s defense left more than half of their 24 hours on the table — spreading 11 hours of argument over three days.

Just two of the team’s 15 presentations focused entirely on rebutting the House’s Ukraine allegations. politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
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Saturday
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Purpura
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Purpura
Raskin
Philbin
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Herschmann
Ray
Dershowitz

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Kyle Cheney
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UPDATE: Trump's legal team: Bolton who?

w/ @AndrewDesiderio

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
@AndrewDesiderio STARR argues that the House should go to court to resolve privilege issues.

This is, again, the precise opposite approach of DOJ's position for months -- that courts have no role in resolvign disputes between Congress and the White House.

politico.com/news/2020/01/2…
@AndrewDesiderio PURPURA just said that Volker testified Trump had a "deeply rooted negative view" of Ukraine because of "past corruption." Here's what Volker said when they drilled down on this:

docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG…
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American Oversight
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The corruption in the Trump administration didn't start with Ukraine. We have a lot more investigations into misconduct in the Trump administration and at the state level.

Here’s what else we do: americanoversight.org/investigations
Since opening our doors in 2017, we’ve obtained thousands of pages of documents through #FOIA. We post everything we get.

You can see it all in our documents library: americanoversight.org/documents
The corruption doesn't stop with the president and his administration. We've been investigating voter suppression efforts in Florida, Georgia, and Texas: americanoversight.org/state-accounta…
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Impeachment hearings continue today in the House Judiciary Committee - and we'll be following along.

You can watch here:
The White House is refusing to participate in today's hearing - and the administration has adopted a position of total obstruction of the congressional impeachment investigation, refusing to release any documents.
Our #FOIA litigation has already uncovered nearly 100 pages of State Dept. records that the administration refused to release to Congress - including records that link Rudy Giuliani to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - and that was just the beginning. americanoversight.org/document/state…
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🔅Ukraine and Corruption🔅
Inside the Embassy:
Private emails edition.
Under @BarackObama + @JoeBiden + @HillaryClinton
Unless otherwise stated.
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#Ukraine #Embassy re cieved an email
Sept 14/14 : regarding #Military Aid and sanctions the US imposed on Russia.
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Militar y aid was previously requested from #America to Ukraine in order to defend itself from #Russia
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Ukraine's defense is not an option despite the fact that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily surrendered its entire nuclear arsenal.
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The focus is to distract American's from what Obama's administration did in February 2014 when Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych's government was overthrown for....Corruption. There were consequences for Obama's failure to deal with Russia's invasion of Crimea
Of course there was no pressure Mr President. They can't allow you to investigate the corruption, because American's will learn the extent of global money laundering. The democrats (some GOPe too) used USAID and CFPB as personal piggy banks.

Mr President not only should the Bidens testify, but many more should be investigated. #Ukraine was only a small part of the culture of corruption these bureaucrats have been running. Mr Nunes and the Republican's have a good starter list.
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EXCLUSIVE: I finally obtained President Trump's memorandum designating Matthew Whitaker as the acting attorney general. Spoiler: It just raises more questions! buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg… #FOIA
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Thread on this investigative story @a_cormier_ and I reported Thursday about the dysfunction and chaos at Treasury's Financial crimes unit, FinCEN, which resulted in Russian agents seeking documents during 2016 campaign on Clinton backers and Kremlin enemies 1/
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