Throughout this impeachment charade we've been told by the media and House Democrats that a cadre of unelected career bureaucrats in the State Department and the National Security Council who are cooperating with the impeachment inquiry are heroes, patriots, and paragons of virtue and self-sacrifice for defying President Trump and proclaiming the truth about Trump corruption and self-dealing in Ukraine.
Alexander Vindman, the NSC Ukraine expert who told impeachment investigators he was alarmed by what he heard on the July 25 phone call between Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
As one of the only officials to have heard the call first-hand, Vindman was immediately hailed as a "Star" witness in the impeachment probe, treated to glowing profiles in the New York Timesand the Washington Post, which said the Soviet émigré escaped to America with his family as a small child and grew up "Determined to be as American as can be."
He was concerned Vindman would "Not exercise appropriate judgment as to whom he would say what," and that when Morrison informed Vindman he wouldn't be included in a trip to Ukraine, he made sure to have a witness in the room for that conversation.
In his closed-door testimony last month, Vindman had made reference to the "Interagency consensus" about Ukraine policy-specifically, that the policies President Trump was pursuing through Rudy Giuliani, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, EU ambassador Gordon Sondland and others related to corruption in Ukraine ran counter to the "Interagency consensus."
At the very least, House Democrats and the media should spare us the sanctimonious narrative that every impeachment witness is a selfless hero whose credibility is above questioning and whose every statement must be taken at face value.
Let's not be surprised if some of the interagency figures now testifying in the House impeachment probe turn out to be just as dishonest, self-dealing, and contemptuous of the president's authority to set U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine and determine what's in the national interest.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/18/lets-stop-pretending-every-impeachment-witness-is-a-selfless-hero/
Alexander Vindman, the NSC Ukraine expert who told impeachment investigators he was alarmed by what he heard on the July 25 phone call between Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
As one of the only officials to have heard the call first-hand, Vindman was immediately hailed as a "Star" witness in the impeachment probe, treated to glowing profiles in the New York Timesand the Washington Post, which said the Soviet émigré escaped to America with his family as a small child and grew up "Determined to be as American as can be."
He was concerned Vindman would "Not exercise appropriate judgment as to whom he would say what," and that when Morrison informed Vindman he wouldn't be included in a trip to Ukraine, he made sure to have a witness in the room for that conversation.
In his closed-door testimony last month, Vindman had made reference to the "Interagency consensus" about Ukraine policy-specifically, that the policies President Trump was pursuing through Rudy Giuliani, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, EU ambassador Gordon Sondland and others related to corruption in Ukraine ran counter to the "Interagency consensus."
At the very least, House Democrats and the media should spare us the sanctimonious narrative that every impeachment witness is a selfless hero whose credibility is above questioning and whose every statement must be taken at face value.
Let's not be surprised if some of the interagency figures now testifying in the House impeachment probe turn out to be just as dishonest, self-dealing, and contemptuous of the president's authority to set U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine and determine what's in the national interest.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/18/lets-stop-pretending-every-impeachment-witness-is-a-selfless-hero/
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