BREAKING: Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf (and Ken Cucinelli) are ineligible to be serving in their current roles because they were appointed illegally, the GAO rules. drive.google.com/file/d/1BCR-Yl…
The ruling is based on the botched handoff to Wolf's predecessor, Kevin Mcaleenan, thus making Wolf's appointment also unlawful. This ruling is going to boost some legal groups making the same arguments: nationaljournal.com/s/708747/legal…
Nov 20, 2019 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Sondland Thread: "First, Secretary Perry, Ambassador Volker and I worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters at the express direction of the President of the United States. We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani. Simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt."
The suggestion that we were engaged in some sort of “irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false,” says Sondland, who said that top officials at the State Department and National Security Council were deeply engaged in the policy.