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| State Department Memos Disprove the Cover Story Biden and the Democrats Have Been Telling About Ukraine's Corruption |
| 2023-08-23 |
| [JustTheNews] Newly disclosed State Department memos conflict with the narrative Democrats crafted since 2019 impeachment. Just weeks before then-Vice President Joe Biden took the opposite action in late 2015, a task force of State, Treasury and Justice Department officials declared that Ukraine had made adequate progress on anti-corruption reforms and deserved a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee, according to government memos that conflict with the narrative Democrats have sustained since the 2019 impeachment scandal. “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee,” reads an Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) – a task force created to advise the Obama White House on whether Ukraine was cleaning up its endemic corruption and deserved more Western foreign aid. The recommendation is one of several U.S. government memos gathered by Just the News over the last 36 months from Freedom of Information Act litigation, congressional inquiries and government agency sources that directly conflict with the long-held narrative that Biden was conducting official U.S. policy when he threatened to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to force Ukraine to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the country’s equivalent of the American attorney general. At the time the threat was made in December 2015, Shokin’s office was conducting an increasingly aggressive corruption investigation into Burisma Holdings, an energy firm the State Department deemed to have been engaged in bribery and that employed Hunter Biden and paid him millions while his father was vice president. New details on the impact of that probe have emerged in recent days. Shokin's pursuit was rattling Burisma, and the firm was putting pressure on Hunter Biden to deal with it, according to recent testimony and interviews with Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner and fellow Burisma board member. The memos obtained by Just the News show: Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #2 Joe talks about them not getting the money, but, to my understanding, the deal was a loan guarantee not money. That sounds like we co-signed on a $1B loan if they needed it. My assumption is that this was all funny talk that means they get a loan of $1B which we get stuck with. None of that sounds like a substantial improvement with regard to corruption. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-23 11:43 |
| #1 Now he's throwing money at them to keep it quiet? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-22 13:04 |