From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   According to DOJ, Ukraine had made sufficient progress in implementing   
   anti-corruption reforms and deserved the loan. From Just The News:   
      
   “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a   
   third guarantee,” said an Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation   
   of the Interagency Policy Committee (IPC), a task force created to advise the   
   Obama White House on    
   whether Ukraine was cleaning up its endemic corruption and deserved more   
   Western foreign aid.   
      
   The recommendation is one of several U.S. government memos gathered by Just   
   the News over the last 36 months from Freedom of Information Act litigation,   
   congressional inquiries, and government agency sources that directly conflict   
   with the long-held    
   narrative that Joe Biden was conducting official U.S. policy when he   
   threatened to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to force Ukraine to   
   fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the country’s equivalent of the   
   American attorney general.   
      
   According to memos obtained by Just The News, Obama administration officials   
   in the State Department had invited Shokin and his staff to Washington for a   
   strategy session and had indicated they were “impressed” with his work.   
   However, it was actually    
   emissaries for Burisma who were pressuring U.S. officials to make corruption   
   allegations against their company go away over concerns about potential   
   bribery payments made to get Shokin off their back. The memos also show that a   
   top U.S. official in Kyiv    
   actually blamed Hunter Biden for undercutting U.S. anti-corruption policy in   
   Ukraine because of what he was doing at Burisma.   
      
   It’s very clear from the memos that when Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian   
   officials to fire Shokin, he wasn’t acting on behalf of the administration,   
   he was doing so to protect himself and his son Hunter, who allegedly were   
   bribed five million each to    
   protect Burisma.   
      
   ScottW   
      
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