On Ukraine Aid, `Nothing to See Here`: Diplomats Urged to Play Down Funds` Release
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON - U.S. diplomats who had pushed for the Trump administration to restore security funding to Ukraine were advised by the White House to play down the release of the money when it was finally approved, documents show. `Keep moving, people, nothing to see here ...,` Brad Freden, the State Department´s acting deputy assistant secretary overseeing issues in Europe and Eurasia, wrote in a Sept. 12 email obtained by The New York Times. He said the National Security Council would not publicly announce that $141 million in State Department assistance was being restored after being held up in what the White House described as a normal review. The money is now at the heart of an impeachment...