So much here. First this story is an impossibly bleak tale of how good faith public servants tried to do their most basic jobs when the most pressing security threat we face is the President of the United States.

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This is a blockbuster piece, where the whistleblower who triggered Trump's first impeachment talks to reporters for the first time. (Gift link) wapo.st/40apkJg

The CIA analyst who triggered Trump’s first impeachment asks: Was it worth it?

The whistleblower’s lonely stand upended his career and put his life at risk. Now he’s speaking about it for the first time.

Second, every single “witch hunt” against Trump finds regular people thrust into a situation where they desperately want to ignore Trump’s crimes and bend over backwards to be generous to him only to find their conscience demands they act.