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    In the Trump impeachment hearings, career diplomats are the unlikely stars

    by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times Nov 21, 2019 4 minutes

    Marie Yovanovitch would make an ideal character in a mystery novel about a career diplomat who survived intrigue in dangerous capitals only to be undone by a scheming lawyer from New York and a president out to destroy a political enemy at a time when war rumbled along a distant border.

    The former Ukrainian ambassador - along with other foreign service officers - have been drawn out of the world of classified communiques and secret dossiers and into the glare of the impeachment hearings against President Trump. Their testimonies have been understated and startling, as if unsung bureaucrats in a John Le Carre

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