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Impeachment revelation: The Swamp Bites Back

Dated: November 25, 2019 by Sharyl Attkisson 2 Comments

      

The following is an excerpt from my article in The Hill.

Many will debate the substance of the public impeachment testimony against President Trump. To me, each of the Democratsโ€™ witnesses of the past two weeks appeared to be well-intentioned and hard-working, and seemed genuinely to believe they know whatโ€™s best.

But a picture also emerged of U.S. diplomats who appear to believe they, rather than the U.S. president, have the ultimate authority to determine our foreign policy. And if the president doesnโ€™t go along? He clearly must be wrong โ€” in their view. Or, even worse, heโ€™s a traitor. Heโ€™s to be obstructed. Taken down.ย 

In an odd turnabout, they actually make the case for President Trumpโ€™s mantra that we need to โ€œdrain the swamp.โ€

One can first look at the language witnesses used as they vented about Trumpโ€™s tutelage in ways that veered far from relevance to the impeachment allegations. They conveyed hurt feelings, bruised egos and strong differences of opinion. At times, the testimony sounded a bit like a human resources conference or psychotherapy session.

The diplomatsย testified that they were โ€œshocked and devastatedโ€ to learn that Trump and Ukraineโ€™s new president did not have faith in them. They complained that, under Trump, โ€œforeign service professionals are being denigrated and underminedโ€ and the State Department isnโ€™t getting the โ€œattention and respectโ€ it deserves. They expressedย โ€œdisappointmentโ€ that Trump had the nerve to defy the federal agencies by not discussing โ€œany of our interagency agreed-upon talking pointsโ€ in Trumpโ€™s first call with Ukraineโ€™s President Volodymyr Zelensky. They wereย โ€œembarrassedโ€ inย frontย of Ukrainians when they didnโ€™t have answers about U.S. policy.ย (Continued...)

Read the rest of the article by clicking the link below:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/471643-impeachment-inquiry-its-a-question-of-who-should-run-the-show


      
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  1. Mark says

    November 25, 2019 at 6:20 pm

    Dear Ms. Attkinsson:

    Thank you again for another well written article! As I watched the hearing (I watched about half of it) I too was struck by the sincerity and the seeming misunderstanding of the hierarchy in formulating foreign policy by the witnesses. I did understand some of the frustration. Working for a large corporation I was sometimes confused when my supervisor's comments in the meeting did not match his or her opinions prior to the meeting. But I did understand it wasn't my job to stick with the previous narrative but to adapt. I do have a comment: more quotes illustrating the points you brought up in the article about bureaucrats trying to set policy or adhere to policies changed by the elected officials (in this case the president) would have enhanced the article.

    Thanks for allowing a spot to allow your readers to make comments.

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