1. Part of the drama we're seeing today and on Wednesday is the inherent tension between a professional civil service and Trump's desire for for personal control of government ("The United States, c'est moi")
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3. The American national security establishment is non-partisan but that doesn't mean it's non-political. It has a very strong institutional agenda. You don't get into this line of work if you aren't committed to a robust version American global hegemony.
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4. It's okay for president's to use backchannels or to over-ride the national security establishment (as JFK did with missile crisis, as Nixon did with China, as Obama did with Syria & Ukraine).What's not okay is to do this for corrupt ends, as Trump has.
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5. Some more thoughts on why we should disentangle the exact grounds for impeachment (corruption of the office) from larger debates about foreign policy. https://www.thenation.com/article/kent-taylor-impeachment-ukraine/ …
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And the media needs to stop with "it doesn't matter because the Senate won't convict". If they won't even consider conviction, call them out for their own corruption.
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The grounds now should be him obstructing justice by intimidating witnesses. This is insane
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