It says nothing about guaranteeing anonymity. These people need to be investigated! Trust me, you'd see it differently if your butt was on the line and you wanted to make the strongest defense for yourself.
You need to go back and watch the proceeding again. No one giving evidence has first hand knowledge only the guy coming up tomorrow. It blows my mind that the two people on that call, Trump and Zelensky and they say it went well. Now they drag a dozen people to give their OPINION about the phone call and people take it for fact. Amazing!
Hi Moondancing,
I watched yesterday and saw nothing.
One witness, billed as a star witness no less, completely contradicted the Democrat narrative.
The other "witness" who was not a witness at all didn't present a single shred of evidence. All he did was whine.
That's shocking given that he was a Lieutenant Colonel and doesn't understand the US Constitution.
The President is the Chief Diplomat. Period. The President sets the foreign policy agenda for the US, not the Secretary of State, not the State Department and not Congress.
Any President can change the foreign policy agenda at any time for any reason or for no reason at all, and no President is required to give an explanation to anyone.
It is the duty of the Secretary of State and the State Department and Congress to support the foreign policy agenda set.
If the Secretary of State doesn't like it, s/he can resign. It State Department employees don't like it, they can resign. If Lieutenant Colonel Crybaby doesn't like it, he can ask to be transferred or resign his commission.
Congress? Congress does have some recourse. Congress can refuse to fund the foreign policy agenda if it's a case where it requires funding. If it doesn't require funding, then that's too bad.
What I'm smelling is Ukraine is pumping money into the Democrats and the Democrats are mad Trump is cutting it off.
Wouldn't be the first time. Clinton bombs Serbia, then Secretary of State Albright rushes in with her private company to take over the telecommunication and postal service and General Wesley Clark rushes in with his private company to take over coal mining and other mineral mining in Kosovo.
Obama overthrows the Ukrainian government and then Hunter Biden is on the board of Burisma.
Hunter got it only because Joe Biden was VP. If Joe Biden wasn't VP, there's no way in hell Burisma would have sought out Hunter to be on their board.