The US Embassy aide who has advised Amb. Taylor of new details of a Trump-Sondland call won an award for intellectual courage in speaking up after he filed a formal dissent on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy during the Obama admin.
Schiff asked Taylor whether"the investigations" referred to probes into the Bidens and a conspiracy related to the 2016 election.Taylor said the overheard conversation between Trump and Sondland had taken place on a cellphone while Sondland was visiting the Ukrainian capital.It was unclear whether Sondland's remark to Trump that the Ukrainians were ready to proceed with investigations was based on his conversation with Yermak minutes earlier.
As the top diplomat in Ukraine, Taylor oversees a large staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. It's not unusual for diplomats from the embassy to accompany visiting officials to meetings with members of a foreign government. Taylor said that once he learned of the information, he reported it through his attorney to State Department lawyers, as well as to both the Democratic and Republican leadership of the House Intelligence Committee.Holmes, meanwhile, once won an award for voicing dissent within the government when he saw something amiss.
"My efforts over this period, and then my formal dissent, were intended to give a voice to an important perspective that I felt lacked an advocate," Holmes was quoted as saying in an article in the September 2014 edition of The Foreign Service Journal, the union's monthly magazine.
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