THREAD: This thread will provide a quick overview of the 9 hacked telecons on 7 dates from Dec 3, 2015 to Nov 16, 2016 just AFTER election. Providing full context would require a history. I'll try to be terse. Youtube version from NABU Leaks is clearest.

2/ first leak is 3 Dec 2015 (0:00 to 3:22) and is Kerry, then Sec of State talking to Poroshenko (President) on eve of Biden trip to Ukraine (which is fairly well documented). Kerry's stepson's friend (and Kerry protege) Devon Archer was also Burisma director, joining in Apr 2015

3/ about 3 weeks before Hunter Biden joined Burisma.

Kerry had arrived in Ukraine on Mar 4, 2014, less than 2 weeks after US regime change coup in Ukraine. Like Biden later on, Kerry arrived promising $1 billion in aid.

4/ Shokin was retired prior to regime change. He was called out of retirement by incoming President Poroshenko in summer 2014 as a Deputy Prosecutor General as part of Poroshenko's promise to clean up corruption.

5/ Shokin was appointed Prosecutor General in Feb 2015, after a controversy about alleged mishandling of a case in London UK in which funds belonging to Burisma owner Zlochevsky, which had been frozen by UK fraud prosecutor, had been released. A complicated sub-story.

6/ also in Feb 2015, David Sakvarelidze, an out-of-office Georgian official and Biden hanger-on who was allied with Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president, another Biden hanger-on, was installed as a Deputy Prosecutor General. Shokin later got to hate Sakvaelidze.

7/ western countries who were financing Ukraine required that they create several new anti-corruption organizations, independent of Prosecutor General: a) an anti-corruption investigation office (NABU), which Shokin helped set up in summer 2015. Its first director, Artem Sytnyk,

8/ was young and soon allied with Sakverildze in intrigues against Shokin; b) the Specialized Anti-Corruption Office (for prosecution) was set up through competition. Its first director, Kholodnitsky, was announced in Nov 2015. c) An inspector general office was established

9/ in 2015 as well, reporting directly to Sakverildze, independent of Shokin.

Despite Shokin's role in hiring the young prosecutors and overall progress in establishing anti-corruption institutions, there were persistent demands from NGOs in 2015 to remove Shokin

10/ but, with the appointment of Kholodnitsky on Nov 30, 2015, US ambassador Pyatt pronounced himself pleased at the "very big day" and "historic opportunity" and subsequently wrote very satisfied 2015 annual review of anti-corruption effort.

11/ Kerry's Dec 3 call came just after Pyatt's satisfied tweet of Dec 1 and just before the much-anticipated Biden visit of Dec 6-8 to Kyiv.