DEPOSITION OF: DAVID A. HOLMES Friday, Novemben 15, 2O19
Source: PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
MR. HOLMES: Thank you, Mr. Chainman and members of the committees. Good afternoon. My name is David Holmes. I'm a career Foreign Service officer with the Department of State. Since August 2O17, I have been the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.
While it is an honor to appear before you today, I want to make clean that I did not seek this opportunity to testify today. You have determined that I may have something of value to these proceedings, and it is therefore my obligation to appear and to tell you what I know. Indeed, Secretary Pompeo stated last week: I hope everyone who testifies wilt do so truthfully and accurately, when they do, the oversight role will have been performed and I think Amenica will come to see what took place here.
That is my goal today, to testify truthfully and accurately, to enable you to perform that role. And to that end, I have hurriedly put together this statement oven the past couple days to describe as best I can my recollection of events that may be relevant to this matter.
I've spent my entire professional career serving my country as a Foreign Service officer. Prior to my current post in Kyiv, Ukraine, I served at the Embassy in Moscow, Russia, as Deputy and Internal Unit Chief in the Political Section, and before that as Senior Energy Officer in the Economic Section. In Washington, I serve on the National Security Council staff as Director for Afghanistan and as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State.
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But, they are used to it. 
