WASHINGTON—Political corruption is so deeply embedded in all sectors of Ukraine’s government that witnesses called by Democrats in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) impeachment inquiry agreed that President Donald Trump was right to worry that U.S. aid would be wasted.
That’s according to a highly detailed, 18-page memorandum to HPSCI Republicans from their committee staff released late Nov. 11. The committee’s minority staff argued that the testimony provided behind closed doors in the past 49 days was “all unclassified, so the closed-door process is purely for information control.
“This arrangement has allowed [HPSCI Chairman Rep. Adam] Schiff—who has already publicly fabricated evidence and mislead Americans about his interactions with the anonymous whistleblower—to selectively leak cherry-picked information to help paint misleading public narratives, while at the same time, placing a gag order on the Republican members present.”
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WNU Editor: Long time readers of this blog know my views on corruption in Ukraine. Being one who has family, friends and contacts there, and who has also lived there. To say that the place is a cesspool of corruption is an understatement. And as for these Democrat impeachment witnesses agreeing with President Trump to be leery of giving aid to such a corrupt country .... no surprises there. Now will we here this in public testimony? I doubt it.