Vindman firing appropriate.

VINDMAN BROKE FEDERAL LAW AND AND PROFESSIONAL TRUST

HE BELIEVED HIS JOB WAS TO SPY ON THE WHITE HOUSE AND LEAK

Much is being made in the re-deployment of Alexander Vindman from the white house. While it can be called a firing, he is still an active member of the armed forces and will continue to receive his pay and benefits. While his testimony in the impeachment hearings was an issue, the more important matter is that he had a history of leaking classified information to the media or other outside parties. He was the source of the leaking and the exaggeration of the contents of Trump's phone call to the Ukrainian president. He was in direct collaboration with Eric Ciaramella who was also a leaker and and a long time collaborator with Adam Schiff. He was willing to use his position to undermine a sitting president because he disagreed with his foreign policy. If you are an adviser of a president and you find his policies such that you cannot in good faith implement them your duty is to resign and move on. That is the honorable option.

If you are a democrat and consider anyone who can undermine and do damage to the present President he is a hero, but in any other time and with any other president he would be court-marshaled and prosecuted. Not for his testimony but for his leaking of classified information and his breaking of his employment trust. 

While watching the hearings I was struck by the attitude of NSC employee's Fiona Hill, Vindman and David Holmes. They could not help in giving the impression that the president should do things in the way they thought was best. This was not about the phone call, but in their attitude that the NSC should direct foreign policy, they knew better, and all were not willing to implement the policies of the president. Obviously Vindman, who was a protege of John Brennan, former CIA director and vocal opponent of the president,  had a serious  position in the white house. It seemed to be a dual position one was to advise the president on foreign policy and another to listen and watch and relay any compromising information to outside parties. This is unacceptable activity for anyone working in the white House. All three of these NSC workers reminded me of Nazi Gestapo and Soviet political officers, there first calling was to inform on anyone who was not a true believer in their political beliefs.

Trump's phone calls and conversations with  foreign leaders were leaked in the first days of his presidency. His first interactions with the President of Australia and Mexico were in the press within hours.While there may have been others, it is a fact that Ciaramella, the whistle blower, who was removed early on, and Vindman were engaged in these activities. They undermined our National security and set a precedent that foreign leaders felt they could not talk candidly with this president. These players were motivated by politics not patriotism.

When Obama took office he fired most all of the white house staff and the ambassadors around the world. He and his political operatives placed true believers in all those positions. It seems that that will now become what every president will have to do in the future.

Trump was a little naive when starting out, he believed these people were there to help him implement his policies, he had no idea how deep seated and motivated that the resistance and undermining would be. Of course the democrats and media believe he should leave all their collaborators in place to further their political agenda. Late is better then never and thorough house cleaning is way over due.