Too many of these diplomats are spoiled and forget who they really represent.
Dems have already painted themselves into a corner, by using extreme language like “the most serious crisis the country has ever faced” and “it’s our duty to investigate these serious charges” - they HAVE to put up; their words look empty.
(Hat tip Qaz123) More people being trotted out, whose opening statements should be something like this, if they were honest...
“I’m a Clinton/Obama era career radical Leftist that hates the United States, and like my role models Clinton and Obama, I have never done one thing to advance the interests of the United States and as someone that has used my position to enrich my liberal friends, receive kickbacks and given away US taxpayer money to despots, tyrants and corrupt foreign governments without any accountability.
I have spent my professional career working overseas on the taxpayer dime, spending most of it getting drunk. I, nor any of my colleagues have ever cared about what any administration has wanted, except the Democratic Presidents, because ultimately we, the unelected and anonymous bureaucrats at State, control American Foreign policy.
We know it all and do it all. We do not care what anyone else thinks except Democrat Presidents and liberal foreign policy think tanks because that’s how we all skim money.
Anything I say here today is my liberal biased opinion and interpretation of the situation even though I was not privy to the call, nor did I speak with anyone that was.
Everything I will share with you today is based on a conversation I had with someone in the lunchroom, who heard it from someone else, so I cannot actually attest to any facts. I can only attest to the many dog whistles I think I heard and my current emotional state.
.......ahem ahem ahem cough cough cough.....excuse me....wrong cards.....What I meant to say is.....
As a career Foreign Service Officer/Diplomat for the US Dept of State, although I do not agree with the foreign policy set forth by the current administration, I am here to testify to the committee on what I know. Even though everything I know is hearsay and from open source news outlets.”