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The CIA analyst who triggered Trump’s first impeachment asks: Was it worth it?
The Washington Post ^ | Oct. 20, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET | Greg Jaffe

Posted on 10/20/2024 2:48:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The young CIA analyst waited anxiously for Fiona Hill to pick up her phone. He had dialed her, he recalled, because he wanted to hear a familiar voice and make sure he wasn’t doing something “colossally stupid.”

Five years later Hill’s memories of the call are still vivid: the CIA analyst’s voice, which sounded uncharacteristically emotional; the annoying clatter of the Frappuccino machine inside the Starbucks where she was waiting for her morning coffee.

Hill stepped into the parking lot. She was on vacation in Hawaii, having just resigned a week earlier from her job in Donald Trump’s White House overseeing Russia, Ukraine and dozens of other European and Eurasian countries. She and the analyst had spoken often as part of their official duties.

Because they were talking on an unclassified phone line, the analyst had to be vague. In the weeks before Hill left government, she had become concerned that figures close to the president, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, were trying to pressure Ukrainian officials for personal and political favors.

“Something else happened on that thing you were worried about,” the analyst told her. The time had come, he said, for him to do something “extreme.”

“Oh dear, oh dear,” Hill recalled muttering.

The CIA analyst would soon submit a meticulously sourced nine-page memo to the U.S. intelligence community inspector general that would spark Trump’s first impeachment. In Washington and around the world, the analyst would be known as “the whistleblower,” a moniker that he didn’t choose and has come to see as a burden.

In the half decade since his complaint kicked off a political firestorm, the analyst has declined all requests to speak publicly about his actions, even as he has reckoned privately with whether they...

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KEYWORDS: cia; ciainsurrectionist; ciasedition; electioninterference; epluribusrino; ericciarmella; impeachment; nevertrumpingtroll; trump; weaponizedcia
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Your rehearsed responses to anyone who questions you shows that you are unable to conduct any self examination.

The inability to conduct self examination is a prime characteristic of members of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.

Anyone who still supports The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate has an evil and criminal heart, mind and soul.

Your writings betray you.


41 posted on 10/21/2024 7:29:56 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: blueunicorn6
Please stop posting to me.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4258882/posts


42 posted on 10/21/2024 7:33:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: napscoordinator

This person releases a rehearsed person attack on anyone who questions them.

This indicates a real lack of personal examination by this person.

The inability to conduct self examination is a prime characteristic of members of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.

Anyone who still supports The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate has an evil and criminal heart, mind and soul.

Do you question your own behavior?


43 posted on 10/21/2024 7:37:50 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Perhaps you could post an article that is not anti-President Trump.”

That was such an inflammatory comment from me.

Now, after personally insulting me for my rather harmless comment, you try to shut down any response to you.

Come on!

Engage in some spirited debate!

Isn’t that what Free Republic is all about?


44 posted on 10/21/2024 7:53:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: kabar
The analyst, exhausted and nauseated, watched it all from work, worried that at any moment he could be fired, charged with criminal wrongdoing

Should have been fired and prosecuted.

45 posted on 10/21/2024 8:00:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Deranged”.?

You are the one reading the NYT and propagating the lies of the LEFT.

As to NOT posting articles, I have a rich and full life. FR is where I go when I have some free time.

Your smugness is the hallmark of an isolated and unhappy person. I feel sorry for you.


46 posted on 10/21/2024 8:03:34 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: LeonardFMason
Please stop stalking/harassing me.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4258882/posts


47 posted on 10/21/2024 9:49:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dear Snowflake,

Put your helmet on and man up if possible.

Don’t respond to this and I am gladly out of your life forever.

LFM


48 posted on 10/21/2024 10:07:14 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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