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- Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis previously emailed Fiona Hill, a Russia expert on the National Security Council, telling her that she "demonstrated courage and poise" when she testified during the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment hearing on President Donald Trump.
- "I doubt that I've ever felt the combination of pride, anger and contempt as I watched you testify and what followed," he said in the email, which first appeared in The New Yorker.
- During her testimony, Hill lambasted lawmakers who questioned the preponderance of evidence that shows the Kremlin sanctioned a campaign to interfere in US elections.
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Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis previously emailed Fiona Hill, the former director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, telling her that she "demonstrated courage and poise" when she testified during the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment hearing on President Donald Trump in November.
Mattis, who had already resigned from his position in the Defense Department, sent an email to Hill on March 1, over four months after her high profile testimony on Capitol Hill, according to The New Yorker. Hill painted a damaging portrait of top administration officials who were trying to strong-arm Ukraine into investigating the Bidens, and emerged as a credible and charismatic witness.See the rest of the story at Business Insider See Also:  |