WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the nation’s 74 inspectors general to protect government whistleblowers amid President Donald Trump’s ouster of key government officials in the impeachment probe. Vindman’s twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, also was asked to leave his job as a White House lawyer. Also out Friday was Gordon Sondland, who had been Trump’s ambassador to the European Union. The firings, alongside efforts to name the still anonymous government whistleblower whose complaint about Trump’s call with Ukraine sparked the impeachment probe, demand attention, Schumer said. The White House has stood by the dismissals.

Source: thestar February 10, 2020 10:30 UTC