Obama Appointee Monitoring Conservative Journalists
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:27 pm
Yovanovitch, an Obama appointee, ordered embassy staffers in Ukraine to target certain U.S. persons online using the following search terms: “Biden, Giuliani, Soros and Yovanovitch.”
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) first raised the possibility that conservative journalists were being monitored last Wednesday, saying Yovanovitch had made a number of “strange” and “irregular” requests to monitor their communications.
He said that a number of Ukrainians and officials in the State Department had raised concerns about the ambassador which is why Trump ordered her removal.
She created a list of individuals who were to be monitored via social media and other means, and Ukraine embassy staff submitted the request to the Washington D.C. headquarters office of the department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
After several days, Yovanovitch’s staff was informed that the request was illegal and the monitoring either ceased or was concealed via the State Department Global Engagement Center, which has looser restrictions on collecting information.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) first raised the possibility that conservative journalists were being monitored last Wednesday, saying Yovanovitch had made a number of “strange” and “irregular” requests to monitor their communications.
He said that a number of Ukrainians and officials in the State Department had raised concerns about the ambassador which is why Trump ordered her removal.
She created a list of individuals who were to be monitored via social media and other means, and Ukraine embassy staff submitted the request to the Washington D.C. headquarters office of the department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
After several days, Yovanovitch’s staff was informed that the request was illegal and the monitoring either ceased or was concealed via the State Department Global Engagement Center, which has looser restrictions on collecting information.
