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Vindman, Not Whistleblower, Was Driving Force Behind Impeachment
The Federalist ^ | September 8, 2020 | Mollie Hemmingway

Posted on 09/08/2020 6:30:13 AM PDT by Kaslin

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21 posted on 09/08/2020 6:47:59 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Kaslin

Every book I’ve read since these hearings where the villain is a top level bureaucrat or military officer, I picture this guy.


22 posted on 09/08/2020 6:48:21 AM PDT by Mathews (ItÂ’s all gravy, baby!)
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To: Kaslin

He committed insubordination against superior officers and many other crimes. Why isn’t he is prison already??


23 posted on 09/08/2020 6:48:26 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Vindman was more a creature of the intel deep state than a “military man”. He is not indicative of the “military” and frankly a LTC in DC is rather unremarkable within the Pentagon.

A lot of this “military resistance” stuff you are reading about is a creation of the mainstream media and swamp.

Vindman will enjoy a high paying job with some swamp think tank or a Soros organization. The impeachment was a farce, but there does not even need to be a thread of truth for the left to run with something in the era of Trump.


24 posted on 09/08/2020 6:48:30 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Kaslin
“Vindman was the person on the call who went to the whistleblower after the call, to give the whistleblower the information he needed to file his complaint,” said Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. “For all intents and purposes, Vindman is the whistleblower here, but he was able to get somebody else to do his dirty work for him,” explained one senior congressional aide.

What he did was wrong and should have real consequence.

25 posted on 09/08/2020 6:49:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Kaslin; Liz; LS; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach; rktman; MHGinTN
And NOBODY anywhere inside Washington, the DOD, NSA, CIA or White House or anywhere else saw ANYTHING wrong with ANY BODY now holding a very high NSA-CIA position was being recommended and pushed into the Ministry of Defense position for A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT?
26 posted on 09/08/2020 6:49:55 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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To: hardspunned

Excellent post. Totally agree.

Trump needs to clean house this time. If he wins big, he needs to downsize and move every agency, department and bureau out of DC. This will truly drain the swamp.


27 posted on 09/08/2020 6:50:39 AM PDT by Starboard
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Vindman is a Ukrainian American. He grew hostile with members who sought to understand exactly to whom he had disclosed the phone call.

Using detailed information from interviews with White House officials, members of Congress, and their key staff, York shows how Republicans had to deal with Rep. Adam Schiff’s determination to hide from the American public not just who the whistleblower was but anything about the process that led to the whistleblower complaint.

But Schiff’s behavior inadvertently confirmed how the whistleblower found his information. Every time that members asked about the second non-NSC person Vindman disclosed the call to, Schiff and other Democrats would direct the witness to not answer in order to “protect the whistleblower.” York writes:

Could that have been any clearer? The Republican line of questioning established that: 1) Vindman told two people outside the NSC. 2) One of them was George Kent. And 3) The other was in the Intelligence Community but could not be revealed because Democrats did not want to identify the whistleblower.

It did not take a rocket scientist to conclude that that unidentified other person was the whistleblower.


28 posted on 09/08/2020 6:50:39 AM PDT by Liz
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To: volunbeer

Vindaman was a Russian at heart. He was born in Ukraine and grew up in Little Odessa, NYC. At best he had split loyalty. I don’t doubt he kept the other side informed about issues affecting them and tried to influence action in favor of the old country. Now he can work as a Ukrainian or Russian lobbyist.


29 posted on 09/08/2020 6:53:41 AM PDT by Stevenfo
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NOBODY anywhere in Washington......OBAMA ACOLYTES..... inside DOD, NSA, CIA or White House or anywhere else ........saw ANYTHING wrong with ANY BODY now holding a very high NSA-CIA position was being recommended and pushed into the Ministry of Defense position for A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT?


30 posted on 09/08/2020 6:55:03 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Kaslin

Who didn’t suspect that?


31 posted on 09/08/2020 6:56:42 AM PDT by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: Kaslin

I never thought I was the kind of person that would throw out terms like “Military Industrial Complex”, but here we are. It’s absolutely Sickening the lengths these Deep State rats will go to keep this country in a perpetual state of war. Before I saw this, I was looking back on a May article that was posted elsewhere. Another example of this. We have officially become Bizarro World when the left will willing embrace these scumbags.

Dem PAC to use anti-terror technology to counter Trump’s campaign messages.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/dem-pac-to-use-anti-terror-technology-to-counter-trumps-campaign/


32 posted on 09/08/2020 6:57:56 AM PDT by NImerc
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To: dljordan
How did he get his CIB?

He served as a battalion staff officer in the 1st Bn, 5th Infantry Regiment who fought in Mosul and in Fallujah during their deployment. His CIB is legit, as is his Purple Heart, albeit he was only lightly wounded.

What is telling is that he was never given command of an infantry company during their deployment, he commanded A Company only after they returned to Ft. Lewis. His command tenure was a disaster and would have ended his career excepting his language capabilities. I knew his battalion commander and his command sergeant major who had low opinions of Vindman. My nephew was a designated marksman in C Company and had no use for the guy. He is a traitor as are the rest of the coup cabal.

33 posted on 09/08/2020 7:02:23 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: Shady
"Jail him now."

You mean jail him before we hang him, right?

34 posted on 09/08/2020 7:02:47 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area")
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Will anyone ever be held to account?"

Sure. Now kick this football while I hold it for you....

35 posted on 09/08/2020 7:04:14 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area")
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To: Mr. K
Is Vindman still in the military?

He retired to pursue his political aspirations.

36 posted on 09/08/2020 7:04:21 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Republicans saw Vindman that way? Or Democrats?


37 posted on 09/08/2020 7:25:13 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Kaslin

Vindman was the only person at the National Security Council (NSC) listening in on the infamous call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to be concerned by it.


And his concern was that the President wasn’t following the policy Vindman had been advocating.


38 posted on 09/08/2020 7:25:19 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Kaslin

Fat PoS. What are fitness standards for those in non-frontline roles? Pudge is acceptable? These people need to be jailed.


39 posted on 09/08/2020 7:29:22 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Kaslin

This should come as no surprise at all.

People like Vindman are why a President Donald Trump is necessary.


40 posted on 09/08/2020 7:29:23 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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