Thread by @rgoodlaw

Breaking

In the realm of hyper-politicizing the State Dep't, #Pompeo has apparently handed over thousands of pages of documents to Senate REPUBLICANS probing Biden-Burisma.

But refuses even to provide duplicates to House Foreign Foreign Affairs Committee.

Next move: A Subpoena

2 "Just days after the conclusion of President Trump’s impeachment trial, in which Secretary Pompeo refused to comply with a duly authorized subpoena for documents and attempted to block testimony of key witnesses, the State Department producing documents to Senate Republicans…"

3. Many reasons this is even more of an affront to our system of government:

Reason 1: House Foreign Affairs Committee has DIRECT oversight of State Dept. Yet Pompeo appears to have forced HFAC to point of issuing a subpoena. Meanwhile he's voluntarily sharing with Senate GOP.

4. Reason 2:

I'm old enough to remember when the administration rejected House requests for Ukraine docs on theory that Congress had no valid "legislative purpose" (eg reforming statutes).

As @nycsouthpaw has observed, Ron Johnson's Biden probe has NADA legislative purpose.

5. Let me put an exclamation point on news of Pompeo and other State Department officials' reported coop with Senate Republicans and not House Dems…

It may violate federal laws, including ones with serious penalties.

Read @donaldonethics (@CREWcrew):
justsecurity.org/70467/states-s…