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Tue Oct 15, 2019, 07:57 PM Oct 2019

State Department official told to lie low after raising complaints about Giuliani

Source: CNN

State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent told lawmakers on Tuesday that he had been told by a supervisor to lie low after he raised complaints about Rudy Giuliani's efforts in Ukraine undermining US foreign policy, according to Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, a senior member of the House Oversight Committee.
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Connolly, a Virginia lawmaker, reported that Kent had said Giuliani's efforts in Ukraine going around the State Department "undermined 28 years of US efforts to try to promote the rule of law in Ukraine."
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The White House's former top Russia adviser Fiona Hill had told the committees on Monday that former national security adviser John Bolton warned that Giuliani was like a "hand grenade."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/politics/george-kent-rudy-giuliani-ukraine-house-testimony/index.html



tRump's DEEP STATE shadow government at work "undermined 28 years of US efforts to try to promote the rule of law in Ukraine."
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Dep Asst Sec would not have many "supervisors". Pompeo? Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #1
tRump does NOT have a deep state. Deep State is the highly skilled & experienced career civil servan Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #2
"told to lie" more like it EveHammond13 Oct 2019 #3
K&R orangecrush Oct 2019 #4

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,960 posts)
2. tRump does NOT have a deep state. Deep State is the highly skilled & experienced career civil servan
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 08:52 PM
Oct 2019

servants.

tRump doesn't have anything deep except his well of narcissism.

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