Ukraine Whistleblower’s Attorney Calls for Sen. Blackburn’s Resignation from Protection Caucus – By Jerry Lambe (Law and Crime) / Dec 26 2019
One of the attorneys representing the whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump called for Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to resign from the chamber’s Whistleblower Protection Caucus, citing her baseless incendiary tweet about both his client and witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
“Senator [Marsha Blackburn] should resign from Senate Whistleblower Caucus,” attorney Mark Zaid said Thursday. “Her comments are completely contrary to everything that Caucus is supposed to stand for and protect.”
Senator @MarshaBlackburn should resign from Senate #Whistleblower Caucus. Her comments are completely contrary to everything that Caucus is supposed to stand for and protect.#ProtectTheWhistleblower https://t.co/hKdeSENtLu
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) December 26, 2019
“Why is Sen @MarshaBlackburn still member given her hostility towards #WBers?” he asked in a separate tweet.
Zaid, who has spent decades in Washington representing government employees against federal agencies, was specifically referencing comments Blackburn made last month regarding the whistleblower and Vindman.
“Vindictive Vindman is the ‘whistleblower’s’ handler,” Blackburn tweeted just days after Vindman, the top Ukraine advisor on the National Security Council, publicly testified that he was so disturbed after hearing Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that he immediately reported the call to the council’s top lawyer, John Eisenberg.
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