[T]he Vindman transcript also showed a witness whose testimony was filled
with opinion, with impressions, who had little new to offer, who
withheld important information from the committee, who was steeped in a
bureaucracy that has often been hostile to the president, and whose
lawyer, presumably with Vindman's approval, expressed unmistakable
disdain, verging on contempt, for members of Congress who asked
inconvenient questions. In short, Vindman's testimony was not the
slam-dunk hit Democrats portrayed it to be. ...
Now, parts of the foreign policy bureaucracy are in open war with the
president, channeling their grievances through the House Democrats'
drive toward impeachment. When he testifies in public, Vindman will be
the living embodiment of that bureaucratic war.
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