Would You Buy A Book From This Woman?

Or perhaps more to the point, If you were a publisher, why would you advance this woman a seven figure amount of money to write a book?

"This woman" is erstwhile US ambassador to Ukraine and sundry other countries (Somalia is about as sundry as a country can get): Marie Yovanovitch, last seen participating in the Dem's Impeachment Theater. We learn from the NYPost:

Marie Yovanovitch is cashing in with a book deal. 

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who testified against President Trump at House impeachment hearings is getting seven figures from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 

The book, a memoir that remains untitled, is expected to be released in spring 2021. 

“Yovanovitch’s book will deliver pointed reflections on the issues confronting America today, and thoughts on how we can shore up our democracy,” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said in a statement. 

Yovanovitch is represented by the Javelin literary agency, which has handled books for other #resistance icons such as ex-FBI director James Comey and former national security adviser John Bolton.

A lot of people think that "book deals" are really a means to buy people off, or pay them for services rendered--past or future. For example, President Trump has repeatedly pointed to the Obama "book deal"--worth $60 million with Penguin Random House. Also the Obama Netflix deal. Who knows? And of course, that's the point.

But, really, Marie Yovanovitch? Who would want to bet that even a hundred legitimate people would buy her book? That seems like a pretty transparent payoff. Which just goes to show that there's some real money behind Impeachment Theater.

What a country we've become.

Marie Yovanovitch And Foreign Service Officer Nerd Behavior

Larry Johnson has a somewhat amusing blog today: Understanding the Foreign Service Officer Nerd Behavior. He begins like this:

A group of lions is called a "pride." A group of crows is called a "murder." A group of geese is called a "gaggle." So what do you call a group of Ambassadors? A pomposity.

After detailing his personal experiences in that regard, he expresses confidence that Marie Yovanovitch will live up to the norms for a member of the "pomposity."

From what I have seen of tomorrow's witness, Marie Yovanovitch, an FSO, is the same kind of person ...

  Jordan Schachtel confirms that for us:

In back and forth with GOP counsel, Yovanovitch ties her personal ambassador rank to US national security interests, essentially saying that she was so important to US policy that firing her would damage America itself. Her perceived level of self-importance is truly astounding.

— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) November 15, 2019

During her opening statement today, Marie Yovanovitch, who never served in the military or in combat, compared herself to two Navy SEAL veterans who were killed defending a Benghazi outposts whose security requests were rejected by bureaucrats like her. Disgusting.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 15, 2019

Marie Yovanovitch Was A Total Headcase

Really--this is the kind of goof that the Dems didn't want Trump to fire? This is the type of person they think they can bring forward as a credible witness in an impeachment trial? They simply can't be serious. It's theater--and bad theater, at that. Via Judicial Watch:

Judicial Watch has obtained information indicating Yovanovitch may have violated laws and government regulations by ordering subordinates to target certain U.S. persons using State Department resources. Yovanovitch reportedly ordered monitoring keyed to the following search terms: Biden, Giuliani, Soros and Yovanovitch.  Judicial Watch 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. After several days, Yovanovitch’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. 

“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 and remains a State Department employee in Washington D.C.

And here are the people on that list--this may not be exhaustive:

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 

Sara Carter

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Briefly Noted: What You Should Know About Marie Yovanovitch

Marie Yovanovitch is the former ambassador to Ukraine who was removed for anti-Trump activity. Devin Nunes tells you what you need to know:

Rep. Devin Nunes: It was well known. We’ve had both former officials and current officials come and tell us that this was a very partisan ambassador. This was somebody who was not only supporting the Clintons, when Clinton was running, telling the people that Clinton was going to win, prognosticating about it. But also once Trump won was badmouthing the Trump administration in Ukraine, to Ukrainians and State Department staff… We would want to get her on the record, did she support the Trump administration? Did she really say these negative things about the Trump administration? Was she looking at journalists? Was she monitoring journalists in the United States? These are all questions that we want answers to… My guess here is that this is someone who the Democrats have been coordinating with. Let’s not pretend that this ambassador hasn’t been working with the Democrats. That’s been happening.

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline adds an interesting angle. John Solomon has reported:

the U.S. embassy in Kiev had been refusing to provide Ukrainian law enforcement officials with visas so they can deliver their evidence of election meddling and corruption to Washington.

Mirengoff adds:

For what it’s worth, I have heard rumors that Yovanovitch has said privately that she blocked the visas at the behest of Joe Biden. This is third-hand information and should be viewed as such.

UPDATE: Really important interview with John Solomon: John Solomon Exposes Fired Ukrainian Ambassador's Links to Radical Soros Group. The video is about 8 minutes long but Solomon comes on about half way through. Very interesting. Solomon also speaks about the indictments by DoJ of the two Ukrainian associates of Rudy Giuliani: