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State Department Backs $39 Million Javelin Package For Ukraine
By Anthony Capaccio
October 1, 2019, 11:04 AM PDT Updated on October 1, 2019, 2:09 PM PDT
Formal notice to come as soon as this week after Hill approved
Ukraine requested anti-tank weapons weeks before Trump call
The State Department approved and Congress has informally signed off on a $39 million sale of additional Javelin anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, according to three officials familiar with the decision.
The sale of 150 anti-tank missiles and two additional missile launchers could be announced later on Tuesday, according to one of officials, all of whom asked not to be identified since the decision hasnt been announced. Ukraine requested the weapons early this past summer. The U.S. sold Ukraine over 200 missiles and 37 launchers in 2018.
MORE:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-01/state-department-backs-39-million-javelin-package-for-ukraine
https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1179116062639415296
It appears Pompeo is threatening his officers if they comply with Congressional inquiries.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Im told that Pompeos office in recent days asked State Department HR/IG if they could discipline officers for failure to follow direction if they cooperate with Congress.
More:
https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1179156540835500032
Trump loses Hume
Brit Hume:
This is gross. Celebrating a brutal dictatorship on its survival.
https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1179031424600596480
The WH rodents are trying to flee the building.
@PeterAlexander
In other news: A mouse literally fell out of the ceiling in our White House booth and landed on my lap.
https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1179042978200993792
Wow, that was quick - Warren Responds to Zuckerberg
Elizabeth Warren: What would really suck is if we dont fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1179023352742236160
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-leak-audio-ftc-antitrust-elizabeth-warren-tiktok-comments
I remember when the trade war was going to help bring a revival of American manufacturing...
https://twitter.com/bencasselman/status/1179041834091372547
https://twitter.com/sdonnan/status/1179042091822923777
He's excited about Civil War because he knows America will erect statues of him after his side loses
https://twitter.com/flyosity/status/1178634745506349056Mark Zuckerberg inadvertently endorses Elizabeth Warren.
Whoa, In Leaked Video: @facebook's Mark Zuckerberg calls @ewarren an "existential" threat to his business interests, says he'll "go to the mat" and "fight" her
https://twitter.com/summerbrennan/status/1179014855061323777
In leaked audio posted by The Verge, Zuckerberg speaking with Facebook employees at company meetings expressed deep concern that Warren would attempt to break up Facebook should she win the presidency. And were that to happen, Zuckerberg promised legal retaliation.
f she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge, Zuckerberg said. And does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I dont want to have a major lawsuit against our own government. I mean, thats not the position that you want to be in when youre, you know, I mean
its like, we care about our country and want to work with our government and do good things.
Zuckerberg went on to deem the threat posed by Warren as existential, and vowed not to let it go unchallenged.
[L]ook, at the end of the day, if someones going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight, he said.
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1179040598222888962
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-leak-audio-ftc-antitrust-elizabeth-warren-tiktok-comments
AOC re: McCarthy's 60 mins interview
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Its wild to me how people crawled over my 60 mins interview with a fine-toothed comb to find any word or reason to claim Im unfit for the job, yet here Kevin McCarthy (the GOP Leader!) is a bumbling, sloppy, dishonest mess & his mediocrity is accepted as a matter of course.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1178764214409859073
The intelligence community's IG gives the president of the United Stares the middle finger.
Im pretty sure I have never seen the intelligence communitys IG give the president of the United Stares the middle finger.
"The Disclosure of Urgent Concern form the Complainant submitted on August 12, 2019 is the same form the ICIG has had in place since May 24, 2018 ...
"https://www.dni.gov/files/ICIG/Documents/News/ICIG%20News/2019/September%2030%20-%20Statement%20on%20Processing%20of%20Whistleblower%20Complaints/ICIG%20Statement%20on%20Processing%20of%20Whistleblower%20Complaints.pdf
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1178795019941138432
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