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Hey, that WH lawyer John Eisenberg has been issued an invite to the House!
NBC News is also reporting that John Eisenberg, theNational Security Council legal adviser at the center of
the Ukraine scandal, has been invited to give a deposition
on November 4.
Link to tweet
The two Johns
I bet this one flakes, though - he seems extremely involved in skeevy behavior...
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Colleagues describe Eisenberg as a taciturn presence who is reluctant to share details of his family or personal life. His daily work is so hush-hush that he spends more than half his day inside a secure office suite with multiple locks on the outside door. Entering the suite, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, requires a classified individual code, and no personal electronics are allowed inside.
As one of the longest-serving senior White House officials, and as the National Security Council’s top legal adviser, Eisenberg has been privy to many of the Trump administration’s most sensitive secrets. That makes the 52-year-old lawyer a compelling character in the drama set off by Democrats’ impeachment drive — and, for the president, potentially a dangerous one.
As lawyers often do, Eisenberg took notes in meetings with Trump, a standard practice that “drove the president absolutely bonkers,” according to one former White House official. “His sense was people were taking notes because they were going to write a book or testify against him,” the former official said.
It was Eisenberg to whom several alarmed White House officials turned when Trump urged Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. It was Eisenberg who then helped order the record of that call into a system used for ultra-secret classified information. And it was Eisenberg who, several reports said, consulted with political appointees at the Justice Department on how to handle a whistleblower’s complaint about the Ukraine call...
As one of the longest-serving senior White House officials, and as the National Security Council’s top legal adviser, Eisenberg has been privy to many of the Trump administration’s most sensitive secrets. That makes the 52-year-old lawyer a compelling character in the drama set off by Democrats’ impeachment drive — and, for the president, potentially a dangerous one.
As lawyers often do, Eisenberg took notes in meetings with Trump, a standard practice that “drove the president absolutely bonkers,” according to one former White House official. “His sense was people were taking notes because they were going to write a book or testify against him,” the former official said.
It was Eisenberg to whom several alarmed White House officials turned when Trump urged Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. It was Eisenberg who then helped order the record of that call into a system used for ultra-secret classified information. And it was Eisenberg who, several reports said, consulted with political appointees at the Justice Department on how to handle a whistleblower’s complaint about the Ukraine call...
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/lawyer-ukraine-impeachment-trump-048755
John Eisenberg
This guy knows some STUFF
There’s no way he’ll show up, but I’m glad to see his name up on the marquee, at any rate!!
Maybe he’ll surprise us, but...well, ole Bolton’s on the cast sheet so HEY! 
