This IS going to get worst …
It seems that the Pentagon brass questioned the White House OMB order to hold up military aid to the Ukraine…
Redacted emails brought to light show that a OMB lawyer lied to to the GAO office on the hold after that lawyer was presumed to have been ordered by somebody , Trump?,.. to withhold aid because of the Hunter Biden political situation…
The US Dept. of Justice IS aware of all of this and had redacted portions of the memo’s….
Hmmmm?
Trump refused to have any of the people involved in all of this go abhor Congress to testify…US Senate Minority Leader Schumer is trying to get them to come in.…
House Democrats ARE STILL investigating the Ukraine aid situation and could actually start a new impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump for a cover-up….
- Newly revealed emails show that the Office of Management and Budget repeatedly ignored warnings from the Pentagon that President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze a nearly $400 million military-aid package to Ukraine was illegal.
- The emails were released to the Center for Public Integrity following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, but the Justice Department redacted significant portions.
- On Thursday, the national-security blog Just Security published unredacted versions of the emails that revealed the lengths to which the Justice Department went to conceal the Defense Department’s concerns about the Ukraine aid freeze.
- Here’s a timeline of what happened in the days leading up to Trump’s decision to lift the hold after the public learned of his actions.
For weeks, officials at the Office of Management and Budget ignored warnings from the Department of Defense that placing a hold on a congressionally appropriated $391 million military-aid package to Ukraine violated the law, according to new unredacted emails obtained by Just Security and published Thursday.
The emails between Defense Department and OMB officials were secured through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act launched by the Center for Public Integrity. In December, a court ordered the federal government to turn over 300 pages of emails, many of which were heavily redacted.
The unredacted emails published by Just Security revealed that between June and September — when the aid was ultimately released following an anonymous whistleblower’s complaint — the Defense Department repeatedly asked the OMB why the military aid was being held up.
Crucially, the department warned several times that continuing to withhold the aid violated the Impoundment Control Act, which stipulates that if the federal funds are not spent on their designated purpose within a certain period, they will be taken, or impounded, by the Treasury Department.
In this case, the aid had to be released by September 30….
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At some point ALL of Trump & Co. actions to leverage the Ukraine to do Donald Trump political dirty work will come to light…There are just TOO many people involved…Doing things they should NOT have agreed to do…
image…The Hill