Kurt Volker undercuts some of the GOP claims during today's impeachment hearing:
After Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA agent in 2003, a White House aide was convicted, a reporter went to jail and her career in intelligence ended.When Nunes turned back to Vindman but did not address him by his military rank, Vindman reminded Nunes he was a lieutenant colonel. Nunes suggested Vindman was contradicting his deposition, in which he said he did not know the identity of the whistleblower. Republicans suspect Vindman was one of the sources used by the whistleblower.
Witnesses say they heard Trump mention Burisma on July 25 call, though White House account does not mention itLt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, and Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, testify in front of the House Intellgence Committee’s public hearings into the impeachment inquiry.
Still, he added, “It was my responsibility to make sure the transcript was as accurate as possible, including putting that word back in, because I had it in my notes.”Jennifer Williams, a State Department Ukraine expert, said in her opening statement that she learned of the hold on Ukraine aid on July 3, fifteen days earlier than other witnesses have said.
She also declined to answer some questions in a public setting, offering to address them in a classified briefing.Ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Sitting before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in his full Army dress uniform, Vindman stressed that he reported his concerns about the requests out of a sense of duty.
A Capitol Hill staffer for the press gallery came around to the media tables to warn that Vindman’s identical twin brother, Yevgeny, would also be attending, in uniform, so that reporters would not confuse them.
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