{"id":177036,"date":"2020-01-15T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/15\/ok-had-a-chance-to-review-the-parnas-documents\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T00:13:00","slug":"ok-had-a-chance-to-review-the-parnas-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/15\/ok-had-a-chance-to-review-the-parnas-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Had a Chance to Review the Parnas Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"
First, it has to be noted that these documents have been in the possession of the Department of Justice for months, and the fact that there has not been more filings against the co-conspirators in the Ukraine affair indicates that Attorney General Bob Barr has unequivocally engaged in an active covered up.<\/div>\n

He needs to be tried, convicted, and disbarred. (pun not intended)<\/p>\n

The shocker here(so far) is that some of people involved were considering having the US ambassador to Kiev, Marie Yovanovitch, assassinated<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In April 2019, Rudolph W. Giuliani believed he was on the cusp of achieving an important goal: ousting the United States ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch. As Ms. Yovanovitch\u2019s standing with the White House grew more precarious, Mr. Giuliani texted an associate.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n

The exchange was included in an array of documents released by House Democrats on Tuesday that offered new details on the shadow diplomacy campaign at the center of Mr. Trump\u2019s impeachment and highlighted the effort to remove Ms. Yovanovitch. <\/p>\n

Mr. Parnas, who is facing federal charges in Manhattan, recently turned the documents over to the House Intelligence Committee as part of its impeachment inquiry. <\/p>\n

One of the new documents shows Mr. Giuliani saying that he had Mr. Trump\u2019s blessing to seek a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine\u2019s president-elect, last spring, potential new evidence on the eve of the president\u2019s impeachment trial. <\/p>\n

Mr. Giuliani has previously said he was acting at Mr. Trump\u2019s direction in his dealings with Ukrainian officials, but the letter released on Tuesday is the first public document that says he was doing so. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Mr. Lutsenko added: \u201cAnd here you can\u2019t even get rid of one [female] fool,\u201d an apparent reference to Ms. Yovanovitch. He also inserted a frowning emoji. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not a simple fool[,] trust me,\u201d Mr. Parnas responded. \u201cBut she\u2019s not getting away.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr. Trump ultimately recalled Ms. Yovanovitch from her post in late April.<\/p>\n

In a separate series of cryptic text messages, Mr. Parnas communicated with another man who appeared to be monitoring the movements of Ms. Yovanovitch. The texts, exchanged in March on WhatsApp, indicated that the second man, Robert F. Hyde, was in touch with people in Ukraine who were watching Ms. Yovanovitch. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are willing to help if we\/you would like a price<\/span><\/b>,\u201d one message from Mr. Hyde to Mr. Parnas read. <\/p>\n

It was not clear who was watching the ambassador or why. <\/p>\n

\u201cNeedless to say, the notion that American citizens and others were monitoring Ambassador Yovanovitch\u2019s movements for unknown purposes is disturbing,\u201d said Lawrence S. Robbins, a lawyer for Ms. Yovanovitch. \u201cWe trust that the appropriate authorities will conduct an investigation to determine what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a brief interview conducted via text on Tuesday, Mr. Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate in Connecticut, denied that he had tracked Ms. Yovanovitch\u2019s movements in Kyiv, and called Representative Adam B. Schiff, the intelligence committee chairman, a \u201ccommie.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Department of Justice has already ignored evidence that a US ambassador was stalked, and possibly targeted for death, so I think that Mr. Robbins is being optimistic.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hyde appears to be completely unhinged, BTW.  (Here<\/a> and here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, it has to be noted that these documents have been in the possession of the Department of Justice for months, and the fact that there has not been more filings against the co-conspirators in the Ukraine affair indicates that Attorney General Bob Barr has unequivocally engaged in an active covered up. He needs to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,394,441],"class_list":["post-177036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-relations","tag-former-soviet-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}