Marie Yovanovitch

Burisma oil and gas officials posted to Instagram a photo from Ambassador Yovanovitch's residence in October 2018.

Marie Yovanovitch was the Obama appointee as Ambassador to the Ukraine. Yovanovitch is a Democrat partisan operative who was removed as Ukrainian ambassador weeks after Hunter Biden resigned from Burisma, Ukraine's largest oil and gas producer. Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said Yovanovitch gave him a "Do Not Prosecute" list with Hunter Biden's name on it. Yovanovich never raised the issue of Ukrainian government officials meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election with the Poroshenko regime. Poroshenko was voted out of office in April 2019 carrying only 24% of the vote, with anti-corruption reformer Volodymyr Zelensky reviving 73%.

A Ukrainian court determined in December 2018 that Ukrainian government officials had in fact meddled in the U.S. presidential election during Yovanovitch's tenure.

She had previously served as Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan and Ambassador to Armenia for President George W. Bush.

On October 14, 2019 is was reported Judicial Watch Reveals Surveillance Targets Requested by U.S. Ambassador Yovanovitch and State Department – But Bigger Question is Missing.

• former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, initiated a request for State Dept. officials to conduct surveillance on: Jack Posobiec, Donald Trump Jr., Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Michael McFaul (Obama’s ambassador to Russia), Dan Bongino, Ryan Saavedra, Rudy Giuliani, Sebastian Gorka, John Solomon, Lou Dobbs, Pamella Geller and Sara Carter.
• Yovanovitch reportedly ordered monitoring keyed to the following search terms: Biden, Giuliani, Soros and Yovanovitch. Judicial Watch (JW) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the State Department and will continue gathering facts from government sources.
• Prior to being recalled as ambassador to Ukraine in the spring Yovanovitch reportedly created a list of individuals who were to be monitored via social media and other means. Ukraine embassy staff made the request to the Washington D.C. headquarters office of the department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Yovanovch’s staff was informed that the request was illegal and the monitoring either ceased or was concealed via the State Department Global Engagement Center, which has looser restrictions on collecting information. JW reports:

“This is not an obscure rule, everyone in public diplomacy or public affairs knows they can’t make lists and monitor U.S. citizens unless there is a major national security reason,” according to a senior State Department official. If the illicit operation occurred, it seems to indicate a clear political bias against the president and his supporters.
Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who has also led American embassies in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, was appointed ambassador to Ukraine by Obama in 2016. She was recalled by the State Department in May [2019] and remains a State Department employee in Washington D.C.

Under oath in public testimony during Adam Schiff's impeachment inquiry Yovanovitch gave false and misleading information claiming no knowledge of Hunter Biden and Burisma oil and gas before President Obama appointed her as ambassador to Ukraine, when in fact she admitted the Obama State Department had coached her on answering questions about Hunter Biden and Burisma in preparation for her Senate confirmation hearings.

See also

• Muellergate timeline 2019
• Deep State coup 2.0