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ancianita

(36,014 posts)
Thu Nov 21, 2019, 05:09 PM Nov 2019

Here's what Fiona Hill previously said about Putin


[Fiona Hill] warned House Intelligence Committee members that a narrative adopted by some supporters of Trump—that it was Ukraine, rather than Russia, that interfered in the 2016 US presidential election—is a fiction put forward by Russian security services.

“In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” Hill said. “These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes.”

Here is what Fiona Hill wrote for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists about Putin in 2016—well over a year before she joined Trump’s National Security Council.

In the opening paragraph of her article, "Putin: The one-man show the West doesn’t understand," Hill wrote: “A misreading of this man—now one of the most consequential international political figures and challengers to the US-led world order since the end of the Cold War—could have catastrophic consequences…

Where do his ideas and conceptions come from? How does Putin look at the outside world? Why did he annex Crimea in 2014 and intervene in Syria in 2015? What does he know about the West? What does he think about the United States? These are all critical questions.”

from this article by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
https://thebulletin.org/2019/11/fiona-hill-speaks-to-impeachment-committee-heres-what-she-previously-said-about-putin-in-the-bulletin/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=FacebookPost112019&utm_content=NuclearRisk_FionaHillSpeaks_11212019&fbclid=IwAR1cjAjsAEjwTLEfqru11uzC3GDkEE4tUMTB3bvzaSx7ke70r27E90PPE7s

from Fiona's original white paper on Putin, written in 2016,a year before Hill joined Trump’s National Security Council.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2016.1170361

Photo chosen to show Hill's constant need for bodyguards and security, arguably because she is on someone's "bad woman" list.

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Here's what Fiona Hill previously said about Putin (Original Post) ancianita Nov 2019 OP
Who is the very tall guy? He was also in a photo with Vindman, dewsgirl Nov 2019 #1
I don't know.It's the only photo I could post from among others showing men and security around her. ancianita Nov 2019 #2
Maybe he and his job are classified? ancianita Nov 2019 #4
That is a Capitol Police....they escort all the witnesses to hearings - not a bodyguard... Pachamama Nov 2019 #3
Right. The one in uniform, yes. ancianita Nov 2019 #5
Very relevant. triron Nov 2019 #6

ancianita

(36,014 posts)
2. I don't know.It's the only photo I could post from among others showing men and security around her.
Thu Nov 21, 2019, 05:20 PM
Nov 2019

Fiona and other professional women are constantly living with threat, and I just wanted to give one visual example of it here.

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