Pompeo stonewalls as evidence emerges of possible surveillance of ex-Ukraine ambassador

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN

Updated 4:48 PM ET, Thu January 16, 2020

Ukraine probing possible surveillance of US ambassador

Washington (CNN) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has maintained a persistent silence as stunning new evidence has emerged suggesting the former ambassador to Ukraine may have been illegally surveilled before she was forced out of her job by President Donald Trump.

The State Department has not publicly commented on any developments in the more than 36 hours since a new tranche of documents revealed that former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch may have been monitored at the behest of associates of the President’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The lack of a response is even more striking following a Thursday morning announcement that Ukrainian authorities have launched a criminal probe into that potential surveillance — before any such announcement from the US government.

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