Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a decorated Army officer who served as the National Security Council’s director for Ukraine, told lawmakers that he went to the lawyer, John Eisenberg, to register his concerns about the call, in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, according to a person in the room for Vindman’s deposition on Tuesday.
Eisenberg’s decision to move the call record to the codeword system following his conversation with Vindman was first reported by The Washington Post. But Eisenberg’s subsequent request that Vindman not disclose the content of the call to anyone has not been previously reported.
It’s not clear whether Eisenberg, who has a legendary reputation for secrecy, ever took those concerns up the chain to his boss in the White House counsel’s office, Pat Cipollone. A few weeks after the July 25 call, a whistleblower’s concerns about the conversation and events leading up to it made their way to the CIA’s general counsel, Trump appointee Courtney Simmons Elwood, according to NBC News.
House Democrats have called Eisenberg to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry on November 4, but it is not certain he will show up.
addsionives We've read the transcript.
PRETTY CERTAIN THAT THOSE, ‘MONITORING, PRESIDENTIAL PHONE CALLS,” ARE TOLD, “NOT TO DISCUSS THEM !” ya think 🤔? BOTTOM LINE - VINDMAN’S A, ‘WH. PLANTED ?’ POROSHENKO/HILLARY, PROTECTOR & DEM. LEADER, RAT - NOW, OUTED AND CURRENT, POTUS, ADVERSARY! LIKE: STROZK;COMEY;STEELE..etc
We don't care about Vindman's feelings, what he thinks or his career.
By whom?
Justifiably so. He leaked the phone call to another leaker that was kicked out of the White House for leaking. Vindman should be fired, no one trusts him now.
Because they knew it was unethical and illegal. It was a perfect phone call. Just like the perfect diagnosis for Trump’s bone spurs.
This is still going on? Dude doesn't want to testify in front of a bipartisan committee but will only do it in front of a Dem one. Tells you everything you need to.
Geez idiots. We have the transcript. A lot of other people listening to it at the time. It’s not a big secret.
This idiot Vindman was supposed to be advising the president. But he can't figure it out and is trying to run Ukraine policy. How LONG has he been doing this?
Don’t report BS. He was told not to leak. He was told not to leak bc he had done it before.
Liar
'Keep quiet or else.' The Trumpian way.
Lt Colonels don't make foreign policy, the POTUS does.
First Class Ukraine?