A U.S. Ambassador Was Stalked and in Physical Danger-- Yet Pompeo and the State Department Have Nothing to Say About It-- Why?

Without offering any explanation, State Department officials yesterday abruptly canceled two national security-related briefings in the House and Senate that are required by law to occur on a monthly basis.    “Staff are furious,” a House aide told Politico. “This briefing is required by law every month, and today's was the most important we've had scheduled in a long time. The State Department has given us no explanation whatsoever.”

Why were these particular briefings that important?   Well, it seems that the briefings had been expanded to include information about embassy security following the U.S. strike on Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and Donald Trump's subsequent claims that embassies were at risk of attack. 
Congressional aides had also intended to delve into the Trump administration's weak and ever-changing justifications for the Soleimani assassination, as well as inquire about current threat levels for embassy staff-- especially in light of the recent news that operatives working on behalf of Trump were stalking former Ukrainian ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
 
The abrupt cancellations comes right on the heels of new evidence that Yovanovitch may have been in physical danger as Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his goons conspired to remove her from her post.  Text messages clearly show that someone had the ambassador under physical and electronic surveillance last March.  More ominously-- the exchanges included cryptic messages that more could be done toward the ambassador for “a price.”
Neither the State Department nor Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have responded to repeated requests for comment.  Pompeo also dodged a public hearing earlier this week requested by House lawmakers and instead flew to California to attend other events.  What does Pompeo have to hide? And how long can the State Department stonewall all these congressional inquiries?
This is just one more prong in the Trump administration's blanket obstruction of congressional oversight.

Former Asst. FBI Director Frank Figliuzzi tells MSNBC: “If we were living in any kind of normal world, we would have the Secretary of State and the Attorney General of the US ordering the FBI and the diplomatic security service to investigate any assertion that someone inside the US embassy in Ukraine has somehow compromised the security of the ambassador.”