Impeachment witness Vindman and his family might be moved to a military base for safety after hearing
Testifying in the impeachment inquiry sure sounds stressful.
Case in point: The U.S. Army is taking security precautions to protect Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who listened in on the July phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that sparked the impeachment investigation and will provide public testimony about it Tuesday. Should the Army determine that Vindman and his family are in danger after Tuesday's hearing, they will be moved onto a military base in the greater Washington, D.C., area, officials told The Wall Street Journal.
Army security officials have reportedly been looking into Vindman's physical and online security at his request in recent weeks, and have also reportedly been monitoring his family "around the clock" to make sure there aren't any threats to their safety.
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"The Army will make sure he's safe, and the Army is actively supporting any safety needs as deemed necessary," an official told the Journal. "It's hard that he has been catapulted into the public eye. He served his country honorably for 20 years, and you can imagine this is a tough situation for him and his family."
Some Republican critics have accused Vindman, an Iraq war veteran and Purple Heart recipient, of harboring divided loyalties between the U.S. and Ukraine, his birth country. Read more at The Wall Street Journal.
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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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