A US senator and Army veteran is blocking over 1,000 senior military promotions to shield a key impeachment witness from Trump

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• Sen. Tammy Duckworth is threatening to block 1,123 senior military promotions until the secretary of defense agrees in writing not to block the promotion of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
• Vindman, an Iraq War veteran who served on the White House National Security Council, testified in House impeachment hearings that Trump's actions on a call with Ukraine's president was "improper."
• In the wake of his testimony, Trump fired Vindman, and now there are reports that the president could nix Vindman's expected promotion to full colonel.
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A US senator and Army veteran is threatening to block more than 1,000 senior military promotions to protect an important impeachment witness from President Trump.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, announced Thursday that she intends to block 1,123 promotions until Secretary of Defense Mark Esper agrees in writing that he did not and will not block "the expected and deserved promotion of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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