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Pompeo Pushed Out His Own Ukraine Rep to Squash a Growing Scandal
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“Volker was the easier guy to let go,” said one former State Department official. “But just because it is an easy choice doesn’t mean it is the right choice.”
Erin Banco
National Security Reporter
Published
Oct. 1 2019
9:00PM EDT
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