Democracy, Populism, & Domestic Politics, Power & Security Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman retires, citing campaign of ‘bullying’ and ‘retaliation’ by Trump after impeachment testimony

Perry World House's Director of Research and Communications, John Gans, is quoted in this piece from The Washington Post about the recent resignation of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified in impeachment hearings against U.S. President Donald Trump. 

An Army officer who played a high-profile role in President Trump’s impeachment proceedings is retiring from the military over alleged “bullying” and “retaliation” by the president, his attorney said Wednesday...

John Gans, a former Pentagon speechwriter who wrote a book about the National Security Council, said that some military officers who have served at the NSC in past years have been punished by the military for appearing to be too close to the president, a situation he characterized as very different from that of Vindman.

“The 30,000-foot view of Vindman’s punishment is desperately worrying: The Army appears willing to lose an officer long seen as a credit to the service by those in and out of uniform,” he said.