The System Was Blinking Red
The first day of impeachment hearings showed Trump’s improper bullying of Ukraine setting off alarms throughout the government.
by Joshua A. Geltzer
Nov 13, 2019
3 minutes
George Tenet, the former CIA director, told the 9/11 Commission that, given the stream of intelligence warnings about potential terrorist attacks against the United States before 9/11, “the system was blinking red.” Those words reflected just how widespread the concern was across the U.S. government that something bad was unfolding—in that case, a terrorist attack. It turns out that in the summer of 2019, the system was again blinking red.
Those who listened to the first day of public impeachment hearings, focused on Ukraine-related matters, heard a lot about Donald
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