If you watch nothing else of the impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill from this past week, please watch Dr. Fiona Hill’s opening statement.
This woman – an England-born, naturalized American citizen and patriot who is as far from a so-called “deep-stater” as one can get – sums it up well, and she even offers a slight defense of President Trump’s indignation at being cast as a “illegitimate” president. (More on that defense later.)
After noting that the most recent years of her three-plus decades of national service were spent as a Russia and Eurasia expert and national Intelligence officer for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, she said she was hired at the National Security Agency in 2017 by Mike Flynn and K.T. McFarland and Gen. Keith Kellogg. By the time she started work there, Gen. H.R. McMaster was the national security adviser.
She wasted no time getting to the big picture of what is at stake, and that big picture is not Donald Trump. It’s American security.
“Our nation is being torn apart. Truth is questioned. Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being undermined.”