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Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'

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Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Mike Pompeo Won't Say If He Owes Apology To Ex-Ambassador To Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch : NPR
[snip] Pompeo has come under criticism — including, at times, from career diplomats in his own department — for failing to more forcefully defend Yovanovitch in the face of political attacks. During testimony before impeachment investigators, for example, Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Pompeo, said he resigned from the department in part over what he interpreted to be a "lack of public support for Department employees."

Immediately after the questions on Ukraine, the interview concluded. Pompeo stood, leaned in and silently glared at Kelly for several seconds before leaving the room. A few moments later, an aide asked Kelly to follow her into Pompeo's private living room at the State Department without a recorder. The aide did not say the ensuing exchange would be off the record.

Inside the room, Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine and asked Kelly to identify the country on a map, which she did. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" He then said, "People will hear about this."[/snip]
 
Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Mike Pompeo Won't Say If He Owes Apology To Ex-Ambassador To Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch : NPR
[snip] Pompeo has come under criticism — including, at times, from career diplomats in his own department — for failing to more forcefully defend Yovanovitch in the face of political attacks. During testimony before impeachment investigators, for example, Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Pompeo, said he resigned from the department in part over what he interpreted to be a "lack of public support for Department employees."

Immediately after the questions on Ukraine, the interview concluded. Pompeo stood, leaned in and silently glared at Kelly for several seconds before leaving the room. A few moments later, an aide asked Kelly to follow her into Pompeo's private living room at the State Department without a recorder. The aide did not say the ensuing exchange would be off the record.

Inside the room, Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine and asked Kelly to identify the country on a map, which she did. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" He then said, "People will hear about this."[/snip]


This incident will make the upcoming trip to Ukraine that much more awkward........

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo lashes out at journalist; NPR defends reporter | Boston.com


Who keeps a map with no labels available; not the first time he has pulled this???


The reporter should have shown Sec Pompeo an anatomical chart and asked him if he could find his balls!
 
Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Mike Pompeo Won't Say If He Owes Apology To Ex-Ambassador To Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch : NPR
[snip] Pompeo has come under criticism — including, at times, from career diplomats in his own department — for failing to more forcefully defend Yovanovitch in the face of political attacks. During testimony before impeachment investigators, for example, Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Pompeo, said he resigned from the department in part over what he interpreted to be a "lack of public support for Department employees."

Immediately after the questions on Ukraine, the interview concluded. Pompeo stood, leaned in and silently glared at Kelly for several seconds before leaving the room. A few moments later, an aide asked Kelly to follow her into Pompeo's private living room at the State Department without a recorder. The aide did not say the ensuing exchange would be off the record.

Inside the room, Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine and asked Kelly to identify the country on a map, which she did. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" He then said, "People will hear about this."[/snip]

Mike said she was unable to identify Ukraine on the map. There are two sides to the story.
 
What ambassador would want to work for him? He green-lights secret private goons that harass his ambassadors.
 
The reporter should have refused the invite. The mysoginyst bastard is going to fall someday.
 
What ambassador would want to work for him? He green-lights secret private goons that harass his ambassadors.

That alone should warrant his arrest.
 
That alone should warrant his arrest.

The target might have been Yovanovitch but the casualties include all US ambassadors and our ability to project power in that manner. We're asked to put aside trust in our ambassadors and their authorities and, instead, put our trust in Giuliani's gang of unofficial goons.
 
Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Mike Pompeo Won't Say If He Owes Apology To Ex-Ambassador To Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch : NPR
[snip] Pompeo has come under criticism — including, at times, from career diplomats in his own department — for failing to more forcefully defend Yovanovitch in the face of political attacks. During testimony before impeachment investigators, for example, Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Pompeo, said he resigned from the department in part over what he interpreted to be a "lack of public support for Department employees."

Immediately after the questions on Ukraine, the interview concluded. Pompeo stood, leaned in and silently glared at Kelly for several seconds before leaving the room. A few moments later, an aide asked Kelly to follow her into Pompeo's private living room at the State Department without a recorder. The aide did not say the ensuing exchange would be off the record.

Inside the room, Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine and asked Kelly to identify the country on a map, which she did. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" He then said, "People will hear about this."[/snip]

An apology for what?
 
What ambassador would want to work for him? He green-lights secret private goons that harass his ambassadors.

Any ambassador who sees him/herself as a free lance super secret agent whose job is to pursue their own agenda and trashes - publicly and private to others - the policies of the ambassador's superiors - while claiming everything he/she does is to be secret from his/her own government and department should be fired. Additionally he/she should be put under surveillance to find out who the ambassador really is working for and what secret agenda and communications that ambassador was doing with who and why.

If a person can't be part of a team, if a person wants to be the be-all of government, and/or can't take the heat of the kitchen, then stay out of it or get thrown out of it.

What really matters that is reality is the absurdity of this sobbing that President Trump refused to follow Obama's foreign policy and fired a malcontent renegade ambassador, particularly since the President of Ukraine was clear that he didn't trust her either.

Trump's worst mistake is believing Obama appointees would respect that he is president, that they were patriots, and do their tasks as assigned by their management superiors. So unlike Obama (and all presidents do when there is a switch in political parties) he didn't fire him. Coming from the private sector, he figured the staff would follow the directions of the new boss. He did not recognize that most partisan people in government are first and foremost political hacks into it for themselves and their own agendas. This was the greatest mistake he has made and he has paid terribly for it by all the backstabbing and undercutting him.

I recall when a local politician won a previous Democrat held office asking some of us who worked his campaign what should he do with all the management staff, most who predictably campaigned for their Democratic boss? Answer: "FIRE ALL OF THEM IMMEDIATELY." Nor just for political reasons but for democratic reasons. Voters voted for a change in government. If he did not fire them, he would be doing exactly opposite what the voters said he should do - CHANGE the office. He did fire them all, his office has round like clockwork ever since, and no one has dared even bothered to file against him for re-election in either party.

Trump should have fired every Obama appointed ranker in every executive branch of administrative government at least by Day One of taking office. For any staff member, if ANY attack him publicly or in whisper/gossip, they should be immediately fired without hesitation. The President is the president. Having 1,001 Democrat renegades out to use any gossip, attacks, or in any other way try to block the president's agenda is THE definition of the worst employee possible. The DEMAND of immunity from discharge Democrats make ONLY for Democrats in government is one of the massive problems in government - and why the private sector generally is 100 times more efficient and effective.
 
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An apology for what?

For not telling her she should continue to contact Obama and Clinton for her assignments and policy directions.
 
Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'
Mike Pompeo Won't Say If He Owes Apology To Ex-Ambassador To Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch : NPR
[snip] Pompeo has come under criticism — including, at times, from career diplomats in his own department — for failing to more forcefully defend Yovanovitch in the face of political attacks. During testimony before impeachment investigators, for example, Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Pompeo, said he resigned from the department in part over what he interpreted to be a "lack of public support for Department employees."
Immediately after the questions on Ukraine, the interview concluded. Pompeo stood, leaned in and silently glared at Kelly for several seconds before leaving the room. A few moments later, an aide asked Kelly to follow her into Pompeo's private living room at the State Department without a recorder. The aide did not say the ensuing exchange would be off the record.
Inside the room, Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine and asked Kelly to identify the country on a map, which she did. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" He then said, "People will hear about this."[/snip]


Someone should tell that Kelly girl to put on her big-girl panties and stop crying.

She tried a gotcha moment on Pompeo and it failed. :lol:
 
Mike said she was unable to identify Ukraine on the map. There are two sides to the story.

No, Mike Pompeo challenged her to find Ukraine on a map. “He shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself had lasted,” said Mary Louise Kelly of NPR.

Mr. Pompeo asked Ms. Kelly if she could find Ukraine on a map, which she did, and Ms. Kelly, whose reporting has taken her around the world — to Russia, North Korea and other countries — said, “Yes.”

“He called out for his aides to bring him a map of the world with no writing, no countries marked,” Ms. Kelly said. “I pointed to Ukraine. He put the map away. He said, ‘People will hear about this.’”

Pompeo Lashes Out at Reporter and Challenges Her to Find Ukraine on a Map - The New York Times
 
Making USMA and Harvard great again...........
 
The target might have been Yovanovitch but the casualties include all US ambassadors and our ability to project power in that manner. We're asked to put aside trust in our ambassadors and their authorities and, instead, put our trust in Giuliani's gang of unofficial goons.

While declaring they no longer have diplomatic immunity, right? As in the case of the ambassador who mistakenly drove on the wrong side of the road for which UK wants to imprison her for 14 years- and Democrat politicians and talking heads demand we extradict her and disavow her diplomatic immunity?

14 years for an offense that in the USA would get you a hefty ticket and a defendant in a civil lawsuit? HELL NO. This just allows a foreign power to extort us by imprisoning our ambassadors and others with diplomatic immunity.

Besides, what the hell are you talking about? "Trust our ambassadors?" The ONLY thing an ambassador is to do is to be the representative of the President, nothing else. The only "trust" should be that they do exactly - no more or less - than ordered to do. Otherwise they should be watched like a hawk and everything they do monitored and questioned. They have NO independent decision making authority over anything - none - and if their conscious doesn't allow that person to do so, quit - or if not then be fired in disgrace. It is that simple.
 
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Someone should tell that Kelly girl to put on her big-girl panties and stop crying.

She tried a gotcha moment on Pompeo and it failed. :lol:

I think you have it backwards.........

This will play well in Ukraine next week; wonder if the trip will be postponed........
 
Mike said she was unable to identify Ukraine on the map. There are two sides to the story.

If we include the side you're making up.
 
Pompeo Won't Say Whether He Owes Yovanovitch An Apology. 'I've Done What's Right'


Mike Pompeo Won't Say If He Owes Apology To Ex-Ambassador To Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch : NPR
[snip] Pompeo has come under criticism — including, at times, from career diplomats in his own department — for failing to more forcefully defend Yovanovitch in the face of political attacks. During testimony before impeachment investigators, for example, Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Pompeo, said he resigned from the department in part over what he interpreted to be a "lack of public support for Department employees."

Immediately after the questions on Ukraine, the interview concluded. Pompeo stood, leaned in and silently glared at Kelly for several seconds before leaving the room. A few moments later, an aide asked Kelly to follow her into Pompeo's private living room at the State Department without a recorder. The aide did not say the ensuing exchange would be off the record.

Inside the room, Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine and asked Kelly to identify the country on a map, which she did. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked, "Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?" He then said, "People will hear about this."[/snip]

Why does he owe her an apology? She was reportedly undermining US Policy in Ukraine. Same with the rest of the whining bureaucrats - if you don't work for the bosses goals and objectives don't expect blind loyalty.
 
Why does he owe her an apology? She was reportedly undermining US Policy in Ukraine. Same with the rest of the whining bureaucrats - if you don't work for the bosses goals and objectives don't expect blind loyalty.

Interesting phrase......
 
She was reportedly undermining US Policy in Ukraine.
She was "undermining" the Rudy drug deal, which was not US policy, it was a matter of personal interest to president bone spur.
 
For not defending her.

As President Yovanovitch, one of Putin's very favorites and certainly Obamas. His only mistake was not firing her sooner.

But explain - specifically - why you claim she was the perfect ambassador immune from discharge as that apparently is your claim.

She should be prosecuted for divulging national security secrets, so should count her blessings. She might as well have picked up a phone and said "President Putin, this is my daily report of the status of American shipments of weapons to Ukraine. Let me give you the inventory and delivery dates."
 
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