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Anonymous ID: e60aae Feb. 11, 2020, 6:16 p.m. No.8108463   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Justice Department has been reviewing Ukraine material for "several weeks," source says

 

Washington — Justice Department officials have been "quietly" reviewing records and documents from Ukraine for "several weeks," a source familiar with the matter tells CBS News.

 

The source said staff outside of Main Justice in Washington have been assigned by Attorney General William Barr to review the Ukraine matter, adding that the review is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh and is separate from U.S. Attorney John Durham's probe into the origins of the FBI's Russia probe.

 

The new review includes some material provided by Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, but goes beyond matters regarding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

 

President Trump urged the president of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and supposed Ukrainian election interference in a July 2019 phone call that eventually led to his impeachment. Democrats charged him with abusing his power by pressuring a foreign leader to investigate his domestic political opponent.

 

But calls to investigate the Bidens and events in Ukraine have gained new life in the wake of Mr. Trump's acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial.

 

On Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told "Face the Nation" that Barr had established a process for Giuliani to submit information that he collected in Ukraine to the Justice Department. Graham warned that any material coming from the former Soviet republic "could be Russian propaganda."

 

On Monday, Barr said the Justice Department had "an open door to anybody who wishes to provide us information that they think is relevant" and had established an "intake process in the field" for receiving and verifying material from Ukraine. He said any information from Giuliani or others would be "carefully scrutinized by the department and its intelligence community partners so that we could assess its provenance and its credibility."

 

"We have to be very careful with respect to any information coming from the Ukraine," Barr said at an unrelated press conference. "There are a lot of agendas in the Ukraine. There are a lot of crosscurrents. And we can't take anything we receive from the Ukraine at face value.'

 

Democrats reacted with fury over the Justice Department's willingness to examine material about Ukraine and the Bidens, accusing the administration of once again targeting the president's political rivals based on spurious allegations. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote a letter to Barr expressing his "serious concern" over the situation and demanding answers about the "intake process."

 

"As you know, the Department has formal, established channels by which to receive information and begin investigations," Nadler wrote. "This new channel to Mr. Giuliani would seem to be a significant departure from those traditional channels."

Anonymous ID: e60aae Feb. 11, 2020, 6:37 p.m. No.8108724   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.theepochtimes.com/prosecutors-quit-case-after-doj-seeks-lighter-sentence-for-roger-stone_3235031.html

Anonymous ID: e60aae Feb. 11, 2020, 6:40 p.m. No.8108761   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/482591-giuliani-producing-documentary-on-hunter-biden-report

 

Giuliani producing documentary on Hunter Biden: report

 

Rudy Giuliani, president Trump’s personal attorney and the former mayor of New York City, is producing a documentary on Hunter Biden, according to Yahoo News.

 

Giuliani has reportedly begun conducting interviews for the documentary and approaching investors.

 

The report of the documentary comes less than a week after the Senate voted to acquit Trump on impeachment charges, though Giuliani reportedly began his efforts last month.

 

Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

 

Last week, Giuliani said in an NPR interview that the administration should continue investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden after the Senate impeachment trial concluded.

 

Trump alleges that the former vice president used his office during the Obama administration to remove Viktor Shokin, a top Ukrainian prosecutor at the time, to try to help his son. Biden did seek Shokin's removal, but he was reflecting a position held by the Obama administration, as well as allies in Western Europe.

 

Trump's efforts to get Ukraine to investigate Biden were at the center of the impeachment case against him.

 

Giuliani, who is not a U.S. official or officeholder, has been a key player in Trump's dealings with Ukraine.

 

Lev Parnas, an associate of Giuliani's who has been indicted, provided materials to the House Intelligence Committee tying Giuliani to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

 

He also provided a video of Trump allegedly dismissing ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch after Parnas suggested that she supported Trump's impeachment.

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation” that “if Rudy Giuliani has any information coming out of the Ukraine, he needs to turn it over to the Department of Justice, because it could be Russian propaganda.”

 

Graham suggested Attorney General William Barr would create an avenue for Giuliani to provide that information and the Justice Department would verify it.