Surveillance, 16 Jan 2020

Judicial Watch [!] brought a federal complaint to obtain State Department records

- Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent
  
• The Global Engagement Center
  
• The U.S. Embassy Kyiv
  
• The Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
  
• The Bureau of Public Affairs
  
• The Bureau of International Information Programs
  
• The Office of the Legal Advisor
  

The time frame of the request was identified as "January 1, 2019 to the present."

on its use of the CrowdTangle [!] social media monitoring program to surveil journalists and former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

Plaintiff, Judicial Watch is a well-know politically conservative NGO. Plaintiff motion to compel production of docs requested October 23, 2019 is an auspicious contribution to fog of war, rumors, and just plain bullshit surrounding DJT's administration harassment of Yovanovitch. Yovanovitch submitted her diplomatic brief to "closed door" committees' hearings and maudlin press scrutiny since October. What expectation of privacy in either her personal, public, or professional capacities, Yovanovitch claims, remains to be seen, I could not imagine. I suppose, Judicial Watch is telegraphing a frivolous, or not, interrogatory strategy to sympathetic senate interlocutors.