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. Sondlands lawyer declined to comment.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/gordon-sondland-intelligence-risk.html
MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)IQ45 promised "THE BEST!"
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/candidate-trump-promised-best-people-cabinet-50183308
stopdiggin
(11,095 posts)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.)
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Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)Because people my age (66) have driven in thousands of unfamiliar places without guardrails or GPS.