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Nancy Pelosi seems pretty happy to be finally signing articles of impeachment against President Trump.Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by
oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. President Trump did his best to force Ukrainian leaders to open an investigation of Joe Biden. They never did. But today, Trump finally
got his investigations: > Ukrainian authorities announced a probe Thursday into POSSIBLE > SURVEILLANCE OF U.S. AMBASSADOR MARIE YOVANOVITCH before she was > dismissed from her post
by the Trump administration. The statement > by Ukraine’s Interior Ministry followed the disclosure of new > documents related to the impeachment case against President Trump. >
> ….In a separate probe, Ukraine investigators said they were > looking into a SUSPECTED RUSSIAN HACK INTO COMPUTERS AT UKRAINIAN > GAS COMPANY BURISMA, which is at the center of
the impeachment > inquiries….Interior Minister Arsen Avakov met Thursday with an FBI > representative based in Ukraine and officially requested U.S. > assistance in the two cases,
according to a Ukraine government > official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing > investigations. These are not the investigations Trump wanted, but hey,
beggars can’t be choosers. In related news, the inspector general for the GAO says Trump broke the law by withholding aid to Ukraine last year. “Faithful execution of the law does not permit
the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,” the IG wrote. “The withholding was not a programmatic delay.” That’s a lot of shit
hitting the fan on the same day that articles of impeachment were finally transmitted to the Senate. Coincidence?