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Why Did Alan Dershowitz Say Yes to Trump?

The brother was not authorized to be hearing a leak and neither was the other guy whoever he was. The lawyer was supposed to be informed of Vindman's concerns from Vindman's boss to whom Vindman was supposed to go to first.

You don't even know who the other guy was... and you don't know it was a leak. You don't what Vindman's brother was authorized to hear. And you don't know why the 6th person wasn't subpoenaed. Awful lot of loose ends there to be making assumptions, don't you think marke?
 
You don't even know who the other guy was... and you don't know it was a leak. You don't what Vindman's brother was authorized to hear. And you don't know why the 6th person wasn't subpoenaed. Awful lot of loose ends there to be making assumptions, don't you think marke?

What you don't know about Vindman and his crime does not justify Vindman leaking a secret government call to people he had no authorization to leak the call to.
 
What you don't know about Vindman and his crime does not justify Vindman leaking a secret government call to people he had no authorization to leak the call to.

He had every legal right to talk to the staff of the NSC Counsel's office... in fact, it was his duty to talk to them and warn them of a potential threat to the national security of the United States, as put forward in Executive Order 13848:

"I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

By attempting to coerce the Ukrainian Government into launching a baseless investigation into the Bidens founded on a conspiracy theory initiated by Russian intelligence services, President Trump had made himself into a potential accessory to the "covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation". It was imperative that the NSC's Counsel's office was made aware of this "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."
 
He had every legal right to talk to the staff of the NSC Counsel's office... in fact, it was his duty to talk to them and warn them of a potential threat to the national security of the United States, as put forward in Executive Order 13848:

"I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

By attempting to coerce the Ukrainian Government into launching a baseless investigation into the Bidens founded on a conspiracy theory initiated by Russian intelligence services, President Trump had made himself into a potential accessory to the "covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation". It was imperative that the NSC's Counsel's office was made aware of this "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

Here is not how the directive is to be interpreted:

"Any level clerk in the NSC shall leak to his brother, to others, to a rabid leftist enemy of the President of the United States or anyone else he chooses to blab the secrets to if he feels it is in the best interest of the country for him to do so. The clerk answers to nobody and reports to nobody in carrying out this duty, not to his immediate supervisor, not to his superior officers, not to the President's diplomatic team or anyone else he does not feel shares his particular unique views about the secret information."
 
Here is not how the directive is to be interpreted:

"Any level clerk in the NSC shall leak to his brother, to others, to a rabid leftist enemy of the President of the United States or anyone else he chooses to blab the secrets to if he feels it is in the best interest of the country for him to do so. The clerk answers to nobody and reports to nobody in carrying out this duty, not to his immediate supervisor, not to his superior officers, not to the President's diplomatic team or anyone else he does not feel shares his particular unique views about the secret information."

"A rabid leftist enemy of the President of the United States"?? I told you before... I'm not going to put up with you baselessly slandering men and women who devoted their careers to the public service of this country. If you can't find it within yourself to refer to them in a respectful manner, then this conversation is over.
 
"A rabid leftist enemy of the President of the United States"?? I told you before... I'm not going to put up with you baselessly slandering men and women who devoted their careers to the public service of this country. If you can't find it within yourself to refer to them in a respectful manner, then this conversation is over.

Vindman leaked his perverted take on the secret phone call to a number of unauthorized people, and one of them was the guy who had been protecting the Bidens in Ukraine for the Obama administration and who said in early 2017 that the process to impeach Trump had already begin. To hell with these wicked corrupt partisan traitors in the US government.
 
Vindman leaked his perverted take on the secret phone call to a number of unauthorized people, and one of them was the guy who had been protecting the Bidens in Ukraine for the Obama administration and who said in early 2017 that the process to impeach Trump had already begin. To hell with these wicked corrupt partisan traitors in the US government.

Okay, we're done.

I've got no problem with you attacking elected officials.... they put themselves out there, and they know it's part of the game. But slandering people just doing their job is beyond the pale for me. Don't bother responding, marke... I'm going to be ignoring you and your demented ravings from here on out.
 
"A rabid leftist enemy of the President of the United States"?? I told you before... I'm not going to put up with you baselessly slandering men and women who devoted their careers to the public service of this country. If you can't find it within yourself to refer to them in a respectful manner, then this conversation is over.

Are you criticizing all Americans for criticizing officers of the government regardless of on which side of the aisle they are standing? Regardless, the Bible says all men are liars and all men are sinners and I will always assume that is true for everyone.
 
Okay, we're done.

I've got no problem with you attacking elected officials.... they put themselves out there, and they know it's part of the game. But slandering people just doing their job is beyond the pale for me. Don't bother responding, marke... I'm going to be ignoring you and your demented ravings from here on out.

It was not Vindman's job to try to replace Trump's Ukrainian policies with his own.
 
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