[Breitbart] Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Friday that the service is not investigating Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council (NSC) staffer who was removed from his assignment last week after testifying during the impeachment inquiry.Asked if the Army would be investigating or punishing Vindman, McCarthy said:
Col. Vindman was scheduled to come back to the Army ‐ he was detailed to the National Security Council ‐ by May, June timeframe, so we brought him back. So he’s got basically a bridging assignment for a couple of months within an [headquarters of the Department of the Army] assignment, and then he will be heading to a senior service college this summer. There’s no investigations into him.President Trump was asked this week if he thought the military should punish Vindman, and he responded that it would "be up to the military."
"We’ll have to see. But if you look at what happened, they’re certainly going to, I imagine, take a look at that," he said.
Trump said that Vindman did not report his concerns about his July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president through his chain of command at the NSC and that he "leaked, did a lot of bad things."