The story also showed that State Department officials had pressed Ukrainian prosecutors to drop or avoid certain cases, including one involving an anti-corruption center jointly funded by the State Department and liberal billionaire George Soros.
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One name that did not come up but Trump allies hope will arise in Friday’s public questioning is
Victoria Nuland. Nuland had Mitchell’s job, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs, from 2013 until the last days of the Obama administration. For several months in 2013,
Yovanovitch served as Nuland’s top deputy.
Nuland was Obama’s top diplomatic hand on Russia and Ukraine and a tough Russia hawk. She was originally hired in the Clinton administration and remained on in the Bush years, eventually becoming a deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
...2016, a top FBI official knew that Glenn Simpson, head of the dossier-producing opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and others were “talking to Victoria Nuland at the U.S. State Department.”