She has been a preeminent authority on communists. We are losing these people because of Trump's corruption. They are replaced by people leveraging Trump for power and wealth. Fiona Hill represents excellence in governance and don't think for one minute people like her can be replaced. They can't. Trump is inept, turns lose his corrupt network of thugs to carry out whatever leverage they like and signs off on it.
We need Fiona Hill and people like her back. Trump is the last person in the world this country needs.
By Greg Jaffe
The young CIA analyst (click here) waited anxiously for Fiona Hill to pick up her phone. He had dialed her, he recalled, because he wanted to hear a familiar voice and make sure he wasn’t doing something “colossally stupid.”
Five years later Hill’s memories of the call are still vivid: the CIA analyst’s voice, which sounded uncharacteristically emotional; the annoying clatter of the Frappuccino machine inside the Starbucks where she was waiting for her morning coffee.
Hill stepped into the parking lot. She was on vacation in Hawaii, having just resigned a week earlier from her job in Donald Trump’s White House overseeing Russia, Ukraine and dozens of other European and Eurasian countries. She and the analyst had spoken often as part of their official duties.
Because they were talking on an unclassified phone line, the analyst had to be vague. In the weeks before Hill left government, she had become concerned that figures close to the president, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, were trying to pressure Ukrainian officials for personal and political favors.
“Oh dear, oh dear,” Hill recalled muttering.
The CIA analyst would soon submit a meticulously sourced nine-page memo to the U.S. intelligence community inspector general that would spark Trump’s first impeachment. In Washington and around the world, the analyst would be known as “the whistleblower,” a moniker that he didn’t choose and has come to see as a burden....
