Memos detail effort to monitor social media of Fox News personalities Hannity, Ingraham and Dobbs, as well as president's son Don. Jr. and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Officials at the U.S. embassy in Kiev ordered the monitoring of 13 prominent Americans' social media accounts during the early days of the Ukraine scandal in spring 2019 and later were informed their activities potentially violated the Privacy Act, according to State Department memos made public on Tuesday.
The memos, released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, show those targeted for monitoring included President Trump's eldest son, Don Jr., the president's personal lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Fox News personalities Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Lou Dobbs. This reporter was one of the 13 individuals on the list targeted.
The U.S. ambassador at the time, Marie Yovanovitch, and one of her top deputies, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, were apprised of the social media monitoring, emails show.
Embassy officials used search terms indicating they were interested in social media posts involving the ambassador, liberal megadonor George Soros, and the controversy around Joe Biden and Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company engulfed in a corruption controversy that hired the vice president's son Hunter in 2014. State officials testified during last year's impeachment proceedings that the Bidens' role in Ukraine created an uncomfortable appearance of a conflict of interest that undercut U.S. efforts to fight corruption inside Ukraine.
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Once again, the DOJ and FBI turn up criminal conduct and fail to indict those involved... the Deep State continues to violate our laws with impunity. We need INDICTMENTS of senior members of the former Obama Regime and any of the career bureaucrats who aided in violating the laws of the United States... including key members of the government. CIA Director, DNI, NSA, DOJ, FBI, and other agencies and departments should have serious indictments being levied against many of their current and former members.
As if we didn't already know how twisted and nefarious the Obama-Biden-Clinon administration was, and the Republicans did virtually nothing to stop them! That is why Donald J. Trump is President today.
I have been saying this for a long time Obama and his administration need to be in jail period end of the story.
AND most of our Elected officials at almost all levels need to be replaced!
Disgusting imagine if it happened to Obama OMG.