State Department officials are growing frustrated and angry with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over Ukraine and the treatment of the U.S. ambassador who was recalled in the spring.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as of Thursday had yet to say a public word about the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who fought against corruption there and has been repeatedly besmirched by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
At his arrival as secretary, Pompeo was seen as a much-needed improvement over his predecessor, Rex Tillerson.
Giuliani, who said at the time she was"fired," had been spreading misinformation about Yovanovitch for months before that. Yovanovitch had been trying to tackle corruption, including giving a major speech in March that criticized the lack of investigative progress and in particular blamed Ukraine's then-prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko.
During his controversial call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in July, which Pompeo listened in on, Trump bashed Yovanovitch as"bad news." More recently, he told reporters on Oct. 3,"I heard very, very bad things about her for a long period of time. Not good." As a current State Department employee, Yovanovitch would not go against a department decision that she could not attend, according to one source.At least 125 former and current State Department employees have been targeted for having emailed former Secretary Clinton's private account, which has been retroactively marked classified, according to two sources. That means the department has now flagged their files with a letter that says they mishandled classified information.
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