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Dennis Donovan

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Sat Feb 1, 2020, 03:36 PM Feb 2020

American Oversight received 139 pgs of records from DoE re: Perry and Ukraine



American Oversight ✔@weareoversight

We obtained 139 pages of records from the Energy Department, which provide a window into former Energy Secretary Rick Perry's May 2019 delegation to the inauguration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

https://www.americanoversight.org/energy-department-releases-ukraine-documents-to-american-oversight

2:30 PM - Feb 1, 2020


https://www.americanoversight.org/energy-department-releases-ukraine-documents-to-american-oversight

PUBLISH DATE: JANUARY 28, 2020

On Tuesday evening, the Department of Energy released 139 pages of records in response to American Oversight’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents regarding the Trump administration’s Ukraine pressure campaign. These are the first impeachment-related documents publicly released by the Department of Energy. You can view and download the documents here.

The records include schedules, talking points and background materials prepared for former Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s briefing book for the May 2019 delegation he led to the inauguration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Perry, along with Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland and former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, was one of the “three amigos” tasked by the White House to run the irregular foreign-policy channel in Ukraine centered on getting the country to announce an investigation of Joe Biden.

The talking points for Perry’s meeting with Zelensky reference energy sector reforms, including the statement “[Y]ou must be committed to make the hard choices on corruption and good governance reforms.” But serious discussion of the White House’s purported concern about Burisma and the Bidens seems to have been absent from the official briefing materials — a reminder of the parallel, “irregular” diplomatic efforts being made in the shadows, including by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. Also absent from the documents is the list of recommended energy advisers that Perry reportedly passed to Zelensky during one of their meetings, as well as any email communications regarding the White House meeting that Perry attended with the rest of the “three amigos” immediately upon his return to Washington.

One document lists attendees at a May 20 meeting in Kyiv whose participation in the delegation had not previously been reported: Assistant Secretary Ted Garrish, public affairs officer Dirk Vande Beek, and Deputy Press Secretary Jessica Szymanski. Former Trump campaign staffer Sam Buchan, a Perry senior adviser, was also present at many of the meetings. Other notable names in the documents are those of Sens. Ron Johnson and Rob Portman — two lawmakers who could have relevant information and have not committed to calling key witnesses in the ongoing Senate impeachment trial.

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American Oversight received 139 pgs of records from DoE re: Perry and Ukraine (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 OP
K&R 2naSalit Feb 2020 #1
This particular administration in the USA is extremely corrupt . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #2
This swamp is the swampiest swamp of all swamps Roland99 Feb 2020 #3

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. This particular administration in the USA is extremely corrupt . . .
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 03:40 PM
Feb 2020

And so is the Republican congress . . .

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