Of Coure the President can Reassign LTC Vindman
On Friday, February 7th, the White House announced that LTC Alex Vindman, Ukraine analyst, on the National Security Staff, was escorted out of the White House, along with his twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, also of the National Security Staff. Twitter has been on fire with this news. It accompanies the news that Ambassador Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the Eurpean Union, was being removed from his post. The Vindmans are, of course, careerists, while Sondland is a political appointee. What do they have in common? Both Alex Vindmand and Sondland were subpeoned by the House of Representatives, and both testtified during the Trump Impeachment Inquiry. Despite the outrage, it is clearly a fact that any presdient has the authority to remove an ambassador. Any president has the authority to remove some member of his own National Security Staff. There really should not be a debate over that. Neither should there be a ...