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Alexander Vindman: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
The Heavy ^ | Oct. 29, 2019 | Caroline Burke

Posted on 10/29/2019 10:55:51 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

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To: yesthatjallen

He clearly pushed way past the bounds of his position and has proven himself to be a spy deeply embedded in the White House. But he also is smart enough to know riches are coming his way with books and speaking engagements tailored to left wing lunatic audiences.


21 posted on 10/29/2019 12:09:56 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: yesthatjallen

“As an active duty military officer, the command structure is extremely important to me.” This retired Army Officer will call out my fellow Officer as a liar and a cheat. It’s called Conduct Unbecoming An Officer and grounds for dismissal.


22 posted on 10/29/2019 12:11:40 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: tired&retired

His working for Panetta AND his association with the CFR,(Council on Foreign Relations) is enough to discredit him in every way!


23 posted on 10/29/2019 12:20:41 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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To: yesthatjallen

6. The actual transcript has been released and doesn’t match with his hearsay information obtained from deep state democrat operatives.


24 posted on 10/29/2019 12:20:59 PM PDT by photodawg
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To: yesthatjallen

Is he even a US citizen? I didn’t find any article that described anyone in his family becoming citizens.


25 posted on 10/29/2019 12:33:09 PM PDT by BlissinNC (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/32580-koch-brothers-ally-with-george-soros-to-pu)
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To: kaehurowing; All

His loyalties seem to be Ukrainian.
He has piously convinced himself that what is good for Ukraine is good US policy.
He believes good US policy is sending hundreds of millions to corrupt officials and sending lethal weapons to the kleptocracy that controls or wants to control Ukraine,

He believes in Continuing a fruitless “ civil war” between Russian speaking Ukrainans ( who have the misfortune of living in the resource rich Eastern regions) and using the Russian repossession of Crimea that was given away by Krushchev 60 years ago as an excuse for continuing US vs Russia strategic posturing, And bringing in US troops as “ advisors” and a trip wire against a Russian invasion.

This is why the “ natural born citizen” clause of the Constitution is so critical. To try to prevent divided loyalties.

Sounds all too depressingly familiar.
Had Hillary Clinton been elected the proxy wars ( and maybe hot wars between US and Russia) in Syria and Ukraine would be very bloody indeed.


26 posted on 10/29/2019 12:44:49 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: BlissinNC

GOOD QUESTION!!IS HE A CITIZEN?? He’s a DEMOCRAT


27 posted on 10/29/2019 12:52:14 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Vigilanteman

The club that you describe is the bureaucracy. The members are interested in only sucking on the government teat and then retiring. Some have jobs that are no longer useful of needed.. but, would take an act of Congress to terminate.

These leeches are the SWAMP. Fire them all, save Billions, and yes, the Sun will rise tomorrow. We don’t need this “white collar welfare,’ any longer.


28 posted on 10/29/2019 1:28:43 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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To: BatGuano
There is little doubt that similar clubs are embedded into other federal bureaucracies. It may be different resumes and different college cliques but the patterns are similar.

I know this because during the course of my day long State Department interview, there were ample breaks where we were able to read the profiles of the people interviewing us. I do not know if they still make that information available to the interviewees. But they did back in the summer of 2001 and the pattern was clear.

In seeing agricultural department employees behave recently when it was announced the department would move to Kansas City, I suspect little has changed.

The swamp rats like their swamp and the white collar welfare that goes with it.

29 posted on 10/29/2019 1:52:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Re item No. 5. He married Cartman’s sister? Didn’t know he had a sister. Thought “Kenny” was his son, though.


30 posted on 10/29/2019 7:57:05 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BatGuano

#23. Panetta’s top political inspiration was, according to him (but left out of his autobiography “Worthy Fights”), was identified Communist Party member Congressman Hugh DeLacy.

See www.keywiki.org, both under Panetta and DeLacy for details.


31 posted on 10/29/2019 8:02:24 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: photodawg

It’s not an actual transcript. It’s a reconstructed transcript. There is no recording of these presidential calls. What happens is several people sit in the situation room and listen to the call and take notes, the ‘transcript’ is then constructed from those notes.

This Vindman is one of the people who listened in to the actual call.


32 posted on 10/30/2019 2:53:39 AM PDT by Taipei
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To: Vigilanteman

Had the same experience in 1993. Out of about a dozen who participated in the process only one advanced and he apparently was a legacy right out of an ivy league grad school.


33 posted on 10/30/2019 3:05:55 AM PDT by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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To: Taipei

If the actual call was blatantly different, he would have pointed out the words that were used to incriminate, I think.

I don’t think he did that. He had a “concern” and THAT is not enough for him to say what anyone was thinking or doing.

His “concern” is not my concern.


34 posted on 10/30/2019 3:19:03 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

In his testimony he said that Trump referenced tapes, supposedly in Ukraine’s possession, of Biden. He also claimed the Ukranian President specifically mentioned Burisma, the company on who’s board Hunter Biden sat. Neither of those were in the reconstructed transcript.

He claimed he’d tried to have those notes included, but they were ultimately not.

Granted, this is only one man’s testimony. But it is, apparently, testimony under oath.


35 posted on 10/30/2019 5:45:49 AM PDT by Taipei
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To: Taipei

How many names of democrats can you give me who have ANY respect for an “oath?”

I am sorry to display my cynicism, but I am left with NO respect for the LEFT.


36 posted on 10/30/2019 6:54:10 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: tired&retired

Is it just a coincidence that Alex Vindman’s twin brother Yevgeny is a NSC lawyer handling ethics issues per the article?


37 posted on 10/30/2019 9:10:59 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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