Article snippet: A steady stream of current and former government officials have been testifying for the House impeachment inquiry in recent days, highlighting what legal experts say are the limits of the White House’s pledge to not cooperate with the investigation. Legal experts who spoke to The Hill said that despite the White House's tough stance, if government officials receive a subpoena from Congress their best option often is to comply— even if their superiors tell them not to. “I would say as a matter of course that for White House staff or other administration staff, it's no defense to say a president or somebody else in government told you not to testify,” Peter Kadzik, a former assistant attorney general in the Obama administration who is now a partner at Venable specializing in congressional investigations, told The Hill. “They really have no choice," Kadzik added. MORE has blasted House Democrats' impeachment probe and in a blistering letter last week White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said that the executive branch would refuse to comply with congressional requests for documents or testimony. But since that letter, House lawmakers have taken depositions from a slew of individuals, including two sitting State Department officials and a former White House adviser, all of whom decided to defy the president's stance and testify on whether Trump and his inner circle sought to pressure Ukraine’s leaders into investigating a political rival, former Vice President MORE, and ... Link to the full article to read more