If you submit a complaint to the OIG, we will review the allegation to make a determination about whether DHS OIG will investigate the matter or refer the complaint to the suitable agency. In certain instances, an employee who has experienced retaliation because of a protected communication may file an appeal directly with the Merit Systems Protection Board MSPB. Personnel actions that are directly appealable to the MSPB include adverse actions, retirement appeals, performance-based removals or reductions in grade, denials of within-grade salary increases, reduction-in-force actions, and denials of restoration of employment rights.
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Views View Edit History. I do not know which side initiated the call. This was the first publicly acknowledged call between the two leaders since a brief congratulatory call after Mr.
Zelenskyy won the presidency on 21 April. Multiple White House officials with direct knowledge of the call informed me that, after an initial exchange of pleasantries, the President used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests.
According to the White House officials who had direct knowledge of the call, the President pressured Mr. Zelenskyy to, inter alia:. There is ample open-source information about the efforts I describe below, including statements by the President and Mr. In addition, based on my personal observations, there is discretion with respect to the classification of private comments by or instructions from the President, including his communications with foreign leaders; information that is not related to U.
I also believe that applying a classification marking to this information would violate EO , Part 1, Section 1. See Footnote 7 for additional information. Take a look at Ukraine. Podesta told them to get out. He said, get out. Yuriy Lutsenko, and suggested that Mr. Zelenskyy might want to keep him in his position.
Note: Starting in March , Mr. Embassy in Kyiv. See Part IV for additional context. The White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call. The Ukrainian side was the first to publicly acknowledge the phone call.
On the evening of 25 July, a readout was posted on the website of the Ukrainian President that contained the following line translation from original Russian-language readout :.
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