Analysis: If John Bolton is telling the truth, plenty of career diplomats, soldiers and spies have kept silent while watching Trump abuse his office. Why?
Yet in the end, only a handful of national security officials were willing to testify to that during impeachment proceedings. Only one — the whistleblower — came forward voluntarily, before the process began. Spokespersons for the CIA, director of National Intelligence and State Department declined to comment.
John Bolton attends a meeting between President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, on June 30, 2019.If others besides Bolton are uncomfortable with what they have witnessed inside the Trump White House, why haven’t they come forward with specifics?
"This whistleblower followed the law every step of the way and look at what they got for it," said Liz Hempowicz, director of public policy at the Project on Government Oversight, a good-government advocacy group. Hempowicz said the already weak federal whistleblower system has disintegrated under Trump, noting the board that rules on employee disputes with management has never had enough members to make such rulings during the Trump administration.
"There was a lot of angst about POTUS interactions with any head of state — foreign visits or phone calls," he said. But if Bolton is correct that Trump broadly sought to leverage foreign policy for political gain, it's hard to imagine the intelligence agency leaders did not become aware of it. They not only sit in high-level White House meetings, but they also spy on foreign officials who discuss what the American government is saying and doing.
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