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Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a military officer at the National Security Council, departed after testifying on Oct. 29. Patrick Semansky / AP hide caption
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House investigators havereleased the testimonyof Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a top specialist on Ukraine on the National Security Council.
Vindman is an Army foreign area officer and is believed to have listened in to the July 25 call on which President Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart for the “favor” that would have involved investigations that could help Trump in the (election.)
That makes Vindman a key witness in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
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Vindman was said to haveregistered concern over Trump’s requestalmost immediately with the legal staff on the National Security Council and was said to have told investigators that a top NSC lawyer decided to move records about the call onto a highly classified system that few could access .
Because the lawyer, John Eisenberg, likely won’t talk with investigators, Vindman’s account of the episode may be as close as the inquiry comes to that aspect of the story .
Read Vindman’s deposition here.
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