01-02-2020, 06:13 PM
https://www.justsecurity.org/67863/exclusive-unredacted-ukraine-documents-reveal-extent-of-pentagons-legal-concerns/
This is incredibly damning. Just Security, part of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, reviewed un-redacted emails regarding the hold on the Ukraine funding. The repeated warnings by the DOD to the OMB on the illegal nature of the funding holds were consistently redacted, hiding the fact that the WH was warned repeatedly that their hold on funding was violating the law and could cause major issues.
As the DOD constantly reached out to the OMB regarding Ukraine funding, the lack of legal guidance, the inability to spend the money (as legally required) if the proper steps are not taken, and a justification for the hold, the OMB kept saying "we are going to extend the hold". The DOD warned them to take the proper steps and kept asking if they were going to process impoundment paperwork, telling them that the actions the OMB was taking were illegal.
The hold extended into September when the DOD warned the OMB that half of the funding would not be able to be processed. The point man at the OMB Duffey then responded to the Pentagon Comptroller McCusker (who has been warning him about the legality and requesting he take the proper steps), CCing OMB and Pentagon lawyers, throwing her and the DOD under the bus, blaming them for the entire thing.
She responds: "You can't be serious. I am speechless".
This completely contradicts the OMB's claim to Congress that the DOD never warned them about the legal issues surrounding the hold.
This is incredibly damning. Just Security, part of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, reviewed un-redacted emails regarding the hold on the Ukraine funding. The repeated warnings by the DOD to the OMB on the illegal nature of the funding holds were consistently redacted, hiding the fact that the WH was warned repeatedly that their hold on funding was violating the law and could cause major issues.
As the DOD constantly reached out to the OMB regarding Ukraine funding, the lack of legal guidance, the inability to spend the money (as legally required) if the proper steps are not taken, and a justification for the hold, the OMB kept saying "we are going to extend the hold". The DOD warned them to take the proper steps and kept asking if they were going to process impoundment paperwork, telling them that the actions the OMB was taking were illegal.
The hold extended into September when the DOD warned the OMB that half of the funding would not be able to be processed. The point man at the OMB Duffey then responded to the Pentagon Comptroller McCusker (who has been warning him about the legality and requesting he take the proper steps), CCing OMB and Pentagon lawyers, throwing her and the DOD under the bus, blaming them for the entire thing.
She responds: "You can't be serious. I am speechless".
This completely contradicts the OMB's claim to Congress that the DOD never warned them about the legal issues surrounding the hold.
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