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brooklynite

(93,880 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 01:31 PM Oct 2019

Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — A former top White House foreign policy adviser told House impeachment investigators this week that she viewed Gordon D. Sondland, the United States ambassador to the European Union, as a potential national security risk because he was so unprepared for his job, according to two people familiar with her private testimony.

The adviser, Fiona Hill, did not accuse Mr. Sondland of acting maliciously or intentionally putting the country at risk. But she described Mr. Sondland, a hotelier and Trump donor-turned-ambassador, as metaphorically driving in an unfamiliar place with no guardrails and no GPS, according to the people, who were not authorized to publicly discuss a deposition that took place behind closed doors.

Ms. Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs at the White House, also said that she raised her concerns with intelligence officials inside the White House, one of the people said.

Mr. Sondland’s lawyer declined to comment.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/gordon-sondland-intelligence-risk.html

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Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2019 OP
Can't be!!!! MyOwnPeace Oct 2019 #1
metaphorically stopdiggin Oct 2019 #2
Not a good metaphor, Mr.Bill Oct 2019 #3

stopdiggin

(11,095 posts)
2. metaphorically
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 02:03 PM
Oct 2019

has no f*cking idea of what he's doing.
(Which is sort of OK when these folks recognize their role as figureheads .. and are content to go to dinners and whatnot. Less OK when they decide they know everything [like the stable genius] and start enacting policy. And a bit of a train wreck when they decide they're qualified to bend a few arms in a shakedown of foreign governments.)
IMO --

Mr.Bill

(24,104 posts)
3. Not a good metaphor,
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 05:44 PM
Oct 2019

Because people my age (66) have driven in thousands of unfamiliar places without guardrails or GPS.

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