Someone should get him on record identifying the clearance level of the phone call. I am of the opinion that Presidential conversations require TS/SCI clearance which is far more difficult to obtain than your standard TS clearance.
Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend you been messing around.
I cannot think of any situation where a LT Col would be allowed to make that kind of decision on his own. He knowingly went outside the Chain of Command.
There is no legitimate valid reason for him to do that.
I think because the WB went to the IG for the intelligence community, he must have been an employee in an intelligence department. Of the three you mentioned, that leaves only Ciaramella.
He’s a useful idiot! Threw his career and pension away. The CIC should have his ass shot! Treason!
Schiff just confirmed he perjured himself.
So he talked to a DNC spy as his source?
And this guy is supposed to understand National Security?
What a moron!
“Need to know” what, exactly?? That he’s an agent for the Ukraine and disagrees with POTUS’ foreign policy regarding same? The swamp doesn’t just need draining. It could also benefit from the services of a good exterminator.
Frank Burns.
It’s still hearsay and not legally acceptable.
I thought he had been discredited last week in various ways.
Yet here he is again, popping up like some over dressed, over-fed Gopher.
Vindman decided on his own to violate the decision of his superiors to extend the number of people who the contents of the July 25th phone call to people who were NOT privileged know the content to people he decided should know, not the people his superiors had decided should know. HE put himself into the position of making policy, making decisions beyond his pay grade. He decided what policy was going to be, not his president and superior officers.
He outed himself as the leaker in chief.
I remember “need to know” being interpreted as a literal job requirement need. This bit of treating “need to know” as if simply playing a role in the coup justified access to classified information disgusts me. I hope every coup plotter receives justice.
He said he talked to a “properly cleared individual with a need to know.”
Unless you name that person your answer is basically meaningless. We would have to take “your word” for it. I can assure you that is something I am not willing to do
Clear grounds for impeachment. I believe those words are in the Constitution
If I had been Nunes I would have asked, “Are you familiar with Eric Ciaramella?” It certainly wouldn’t have been outing the whistleblower because Schiff doesn’t know who the whistleblower is (tee hee hee). It would only be inquiring about knowing a fellow Democrat operative.
Without knowing who that person was, we do not know if that person was properly cleared. Just because the person had a secret or higher clearance does not mean he had a need to know. That little exchange convinced me that it is Vindman who is the leaker who gave information to the so called whistleblower. Repubs need to zero in more on NSC personnel contacts outside the NSC and how common that is and who approves those contacts.
He reported back to the CIA, and Eric CIAmiello.
The CIA was treating the White House like a foreign government. They had a spy ring TARGETING the President, not supporting him as staff.
The pictures of Schiff For Brains I see everywhere makes me think he’ll jump on the desk and belt out a tune , Hello my baby Hello my honey as his closing statement ,LOL
This is starting to go the way of all the other BS liberal witch-hunts... we’re starting to uncover the lies and deceptions of the Trump haters.