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LtCol Vindman's brother has filed a *very interesting* whistleblower complaint:
The 32-page complaint outlines a half-dozen times that Colonel Vindman reported various legal and ethical concerns to superiors at the National Security Council and Defense Department between July 2019 and February 2020 in communications that his lawyers argue meets the criteria for protection from reprisal. It discloses for the first time that Colonel Vindman repeatedly raised concerns about Mr. O’Brien and Alex Gray, the National Security Council chief of staff, to top White House lawyers.
In the fall of 2019, for example, Colonel Vindman flagged that a planned trip by Mr. O’Brien to Brigham Young University in Utah “was unusual and not sufficiently official in nature.” Mr. O’Brien planned to bring along his wife at government expense, the complaint says, and address an Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit of which his daughter was a member.
He was told Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Gray had directed aides to use “official time for personal errands including scheduling haircut appointments, retrieving personal luggage and to coordinate personal dinner arrangements.”
In January, not long before he was fired, the complaint said, Colonel Vindman spoke with a colleague detailed to the White House from the Defense Department who claimed that Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Gray “engaged in demeaning and demoralizing sexist behavior against her and multiple other female N.S.C. professionals.” She told him the men commented inappropriately on their looks, talked down to them and left them out of key meetings, and shared accounts from several senior aides.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/yevgeny-vindman-whistleblower-complaint.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=024cb071-ead7-11ea-9f1f-7723d7394972&index=1&pgtype=Article®ion=footer
In the fall of 2019, for example, Colonel Vindman flagged that a planned trip by Mr. O’Brien to Brigham Young University in Utah “was unusual and not sufficiently official in nature.” Mr. O’Brien planned to bring along his wife at government expense, the complaint says, and address an Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit of which his daughter was a member.
He was told Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Gray had directed aides to use “official time for personal errands including scheduling haircut appointments, retrieving personal luggage and to coordinate personal dinner arrangements.”
In January, not long before he was fired, the complaint said, Colonel Vindman spoke with a colleague detailed to the White House from the Defense Department who claimed that Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Gray “engaged in demeaning and demoralizing sexist behavior against her and multiple other female N.S.C. professionals.” She told him the men commented inappropriately on their looks, talked down to them and left them out of key meetings, and shared accounts from several senior aides.
The full complaint is here: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/yevgeny-vindman-whistle-blower-complaint-august-18-2020/c1cb09477fbbe596/full.pdf
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