FIONA HILL: A coal-miner's daughter, Russia expert, warns of attacks on U.S. elections
Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 -- Russia's security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests. As Republicans and Democrats have agreed for decades, Ukraine is a valued partner of the United States, and it plays an important role in our national security. ... I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine--not Russia--attacked us in 2016. These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes.
