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Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch. An American hero. (Original Post)
Cousin Dupree
Oct 2019
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MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)1. Absolutely!
The Nixon saga required people to accept the truth and come forward to share it.
I guess we can only hope that the "American Dream" will be continued by people doing the same this time around.
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)2. I hope the next president awards her
The Medal of Freedom.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)3. Now nobody else can use the BS excuse that they aren't allowed to testify.
former9thward
(32,001 posts)4. Why?
All she said was that if something happened it was not her fault.
FM123
(10,053 posts)5. Yes!
I found her words in the opening statement quite moving.
Link: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2019/10/full-testimony.pdf
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)6. Thoroughly impressive, so inspiring! My new shero.
What a travesty that such a talented career servant, in such an important post, was thrown away and smeared for purely political reasons, at great cost to our very security.
oasis
(49,382 posts)7. ImWithHer