The Department of Defense inspector general on Wednesday concluded that Army Col. Yevgeny S. Vindman faced illegal retaliation after filing ethics complaints against President Trump and senior national security officials in his administration.
The findings close out a 2020 complaint by then-Lt. Col. Vindman, who served as a senior ethics official in the National Security Council during the Trump administration.
In his complaint, then-Lt. Col. Vindman — he was promoted to a full colonel in 2021 — alleged that Trump officials targeted him for making several protected complaints and for his association with his twin brother, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the first Trump impeachment proceedings.
“We found, based on a preponderance of the evidence, that the Complainant was the subject of unfavorable personnel actions from administration officials,” the inspector general report concluded. “Furthermore, we concluded based on a preponderance of the evidence, that these actions would not have occurred or been withheld absent the Complainant’s protected communications.”
Lt. Col. Vindman accused Michael Ellis, the former NSC deputy legal adviser, and John Eisenberg, the former deputy White House counsel and NSC legal adviser, of giving him an adverse rating on his evaluation report and for not recommending him for an end of tour award after completing his NSC staff assignment.
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