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House Chairmen Subpoena Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Jacob Schulz
Saturday, September 28, 2019, 1:16 PM

The chairmen of the three House committeesOversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence—issued a subpeona to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to produce documents related to the Trump administration's interractions with officials associated with the Ukrainian government.

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The chairmen of the three House committeesOversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence—issued a subpeona to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to produce documents related to the Trump administration's interractions with officials associated with the Ukrainian government. The chairmen's letter references specific allegations of misdeeds by Department officials contained in the whistleblower complaint as well as a collection of public comments and tweets by Rudy Giuliani about the involvement of the State Department in his outreach to Ukrainian officials. The subpeona compels Pompeo to produce the documents by October 4. The letter can be found here.


Jacob Schulz is a law student at the University of Chicago Law School. He was previously the Managing Editor of Lawfare and a legal intern with the National Security Division in the U.S. Department of Justice. All views are his own.

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