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2020-02-08 Home Front: Politix
NSC housecleaning, with special attention to Colonel Vindman
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Vindman fired, escorted out of White House after Trump acquittal

[FOXNEWS] Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who made waves as a witness during the Trump impeachment proceedings, was fired Friday by the National Security Council and escorted off of the White House grounds, Fox News has confirmed.

Vindman was on detail to the National Security Council from the Department of Defense, and it is expected he will return there. It comes just two days after President Trump was acquitted in the Senate on the impeachment charges brought by the House last year over his dealings with Ukraine.

In a lengthy statement, Vindman’s attorney, David Pressman, confirmed that Vindman had been escorted out of the White House on Friday.

"There is no question in the mind of any American why this man’s job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House," Pressman said. "LTC Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth. His honor, his commitment to right, frightened the powerful."

A senior administration official also told Fox News that Vindman’s twin brother Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman has also left the National Security Council. Yevgeny Vindman was assigned to the office that vetted publications like former national security adviser John Bolton’s book ‐ though he has said he was not involved in the vetting of the Bolton manuscript.

The news comes after reports that the White House was weighing options to dismiss Vindman from the NSC in an effort to shrink its foreign policy bureaucracy. Bloomberg reported Thursday that the White House planned to frame Vindman’s exit as part of an NSC staff downsizing, not retaliation.
Posted by Fred 2020-02-08 00:13|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 Paging FBI Special Agent Mr. John Pientka. SA John Pientka to the nearest white courtesy phone please. Mr. Pientka.

Additional required house cleaning with regard to FBI and the FISA issue found here.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-08 05:01||   2020-02-08 05:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Amb. Sondland also given the opportunity to spend more time with his family
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-08 06:34||   2020-02-08 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Just think. If Boosh had cleaned house on day one we would never have gone to Iraq. Imagine that...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-08 08:09||   2020-02-08 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Getting rid of Bolton for good is a legacy Trump can be proud of.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-08 08:10||   2020-02-08 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 What's the over/under on Lt. Col. ("Don't call me Shirley!") Vindman's book deal? $500,000?
Posted by Matt 2020-02-08 08:15||   2020-02-08 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 A LTC Sausage book deal in the immediate future is unlikely. His Deep State shelf life is not soon to expire.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-08 08:21||   2020-02-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#7 What's the over/under on Lt. Col. ("Don't call me Shirley!") Vindman's book deal? $500,000?

$10 on the over. I'm good for it!
Posted by Raj 2020-02-08 08:50||   2020-02-08 08:50|| Front Page Top

#8 As military Vindman broke rules to testify. Also he had no first hand knowledge so his testimony was pointless. The military needs a rule that says "too stupid to serve".

Either that or send him to Antarctica to finish out his service.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-02-08 09:47||   2020-02-08 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 "There is no question in the mind of any American why this man’s job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House," Pressman said."

Well Counselor, many think your client is a full-blown a$$hole and deserves more than re-assignment.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-08 10:20||   2020-02-08 10:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Insubordination: Having a personal attorney publicly disputing his client's (a serving officer) reassignment. Cashier him immediately.
Posted by magpie 2020-02-08 10:27||   2020-02-08 10:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Trump should just fire any political appointees and and appointees who burrowed from the previous administration
There should be no holding overs from the Zero administration in the Executive Branch
I hope this is the beginning of the end of the leaks
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2020-02-08 10:28||   2020-02-08 10:28|| Front Page Top

#12 It's certainly a message sent
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-08 10:33||   2020-02-08 10:33|| Front Page Top

#13 What's the over/under on Lt. Col. ("Don't call me Shirley!") Vindman's book deal? $500,000?

That's the old school way to do it. It's what I thought Christine Blasley-Ford would do. But these days they just set up a GoFundMe page.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-08 11:01||   2020-02-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Lt. Chicken Vindaloo, though I suspect that dish is too healthy for association.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-08 13:35||   2020-02-08 13:35|| Front Page Top

#15 #13 Most likely (in the recent past), money would be funneled into the U.S. from Ukraine to pay these people such as CBF and the Colonel after it was laundered through some foundation.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-08 14:16||   2020-02-08 14:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Did I mention, it was our tax money that went to Ukraine in the form of aid before being laundered and then sent back to the U.S. A Slick and Schiffty shiffty operation.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-08 14:20||   2020-02-08 14:20|| Front Page Top

#17  It's certainly a message sent
Though not as good a message as a transfer to Fort Greely (Thule AFB may sound better, but AF generally scores sweeter digs than Army (who scores way sweeter than Marines but I would not wish that a** on the Marines.))
Posted by Glenmore 2020-02-08 14:58||   2020-02-08 14:58|| Front Page Top

#18 Chicken Vindaloo, though I suspect that dish is too healthy for association.

Agree. Son-in-law is part owner of a restaurant (BHUNA) in Portland that serves some great vindalooo (though not chicken, IIRC.)
Posted by Glenmore 2020-02-08 15:00||   2020-02-08 15:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Call me when he gets the job of military attache to CAR.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-08 15:43||   2020-02-08 15:43|| Front Page Top

#20 That ends the first military coup part of Nancy "The Ripper"s hoax.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-08 16:07||   2020-02-08 16:07|| Front Page Top

#21 *off topic

Had a chili cook-off some years back. As with all chili cook-offs, there is always that one who make it hotter than hell, and there is always a line of bucks willing to show they can eat it.

Only myself and one other were able to eat a bowl of this.

That being said, there is a restaurant we like which serves vindaloo. We were in this town and I tell the Mrs, "Put the order in, I'll start heading that way, and it will be done shortly after I arrive. If they ask How Spicey? tell them to make it like they like it."

So I get there and am greeted at the door, "Hello, you must be Mr. Kansas. Please sit down, have a beer, your food is almost ready."

These people don't know me from boo, so my spider sense is pinging. Food is done, get home, arrange feast.

I'm quite hungry at this point, and after everyone else gets set, I grab my spoon and scoop a big ol bite.

It is important to note here, I am not 24 hours into a significant altitude change higher.

So I take this bite, and immediately spider sense calls me a dumbass for not listening. As the inferno envelopes every surface area of my mouth, I try counter-flooding with deep inhales through the nose. Naturally, I get a nose bleed.

To prevent myself from drowning, I begin gasping through the mouth while bending forward to control the bleeding. Presently, I get my food swallowed and am breathing like a barking seal but I am alive.

Except, General Vindaloo launched a recon in force into my nasal cavity via my tonsils and hid amongst the bleeding, and came out my nostrils.

Smokey, I had entered a world of pain. I'm flailing, wife has gone into ER mode, kids are confused, dogs 1/4 mile away were hiding under tables. I managed to not soil myself, and regained control. I finished the meal, the vindaloo, chicken, was absolutely delicious.

As the saying goes, knowing is half the battle.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-08 20:05||   2020-02-08 20:05|| Front Page Top

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