With that impeachment inquiry now coming full circle, the Democrats have made their first move when it comes to the round of subpoenas so Mike Pompeo come on down!
Friday, Rep Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued the subpoena to the Secretary of State in relation to documents the Committee demanded that apparently detail conversations between Donald Trump, his personal attorney Rudy Guiliani and senior Ukrainian officials.
“The subpoenaed documents shall be part of the impeachment inquiry and shared among the Committees. Your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the House’s impeachment inquiry,” the three chairmen wrote in a letter to Pompeo.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The move by the chairmen, however, suggests the House is moving rapidly to advance its fledgling efforts to investigate and draw up articles of impeachment related to Trump’s conduct toward Ukraine.
In addition to the subpoena, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has also scheduled a number of depositions for senior State Department officials who they identified as having vital information as it relates to the Ukrainian saga currently engulfing Donald Trump and the White House.
Among those possible names that could be deposed as part of the inquiry include former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch – who was criticized by Trump in his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – U.S. ambassador Kurt Volker whose name was thrown around as a figure responsible for facilitating meetings between Guiliani and Ukrainian officials after the July 25 call – deputy assistant secretary George Kent, Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbuhl and Ambassador Gordon Sondland.
