Friday testimony before the impeachment inquiry could highlight a fracture inside the Defense Dept.
Mark Sumner
Daily Kos Staff
Friday October 18, 2019 · 10:45 AM EDT
When Ambassadors Marie Yovanovitch and Gordon Sondland appear on Capitol Hill to testify before the House impeachment inquiry, the media pays attention. But just because Friday doesn’t bring a big in-the-news name to sit down before the combined committees, that doesn’t mean the testimony being given is trivial. Because Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper knows the details about the military aid that was slated for Ukraine—including when that aid was halted, and what the Pentagon was told.
What Cooper has to say could be particularly important because of what the inquiry is not getting from the rest of the Defense Department. On Wednesday, Trump-appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Hood refused to turn over subpoenaed documents after making the claim that the impeachment inquiry did not actually have the power to authorize subpoenas, along with an assertion that the DOD was covered by a kind of blanket executive branch privilege.
Without those documents, it’s difficult to verify the dates of everything involved with the military aid slated for Ukraine. When did the Defense Department inform the White House that it had completed its actual review of the proposed aid? When did Trump let the Pentagon know that he was blocking the aid under claims that the review had not been completed?
As Yahoo News reports, it was Cooper who actually had charge of the aid package and sent Ukraine a video address almost a year ago saying, “You can count on the United States to remain your strong partner in strengthening Ukraine’s military to defend Ukrainian democracy.” But the aid that Cooper promised was on its way didn’t come. Not that winter, or the next spring, or over the summer. It wasn’t until the White House was aware of the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s actions that the funds were finally released. Trump continued to hold up the money, despite a letter from the Defense Department saying that Ukraine had “taken substantial actions” toward decreasing corruption and improving accountability.
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Hey Hood maybe you should go into at least Webster dictionary and look up subpoena, here I'll make easy for you since you think you are above the rule of law:
Definition of subpoena
(Entry 1 of 2)
: a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure
subpoena verb
subpoenaed; subpoenaing
Definition of subpoena (Entry 2 of 2)
transitive verb
: to serve or summon with a writ of subpoena
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subpoena
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read of her actual experience re: Ukraine aid travails 
Did you know she’s been rescheduled to appear next week, and not today? - don’t know why, but - it looks as if her deposition is worth waiting for - !
