From the WSJ story:
Some witnesses in the House impeachment inquiry cited orders from former national-security adviser John Bolton to report to Mr. Eisenberg the “drug deal,” as Mr. Bolton allegedly called it, that Messrs. Sondland and Giuliani were involved in. Mr. Bolton didn’t personally raise his concerns over Mr. Sondland’s activities with Mr. Eisenberg, a person familiar with the NSC general counsel’s thinking said.
It isn’t known publicly what, if anything, Mr. Eisenberg did with those reported complaints, and his handling of them is now a subject of debate.
“I do think someone is trying to make him the fall guy,” one current administration official said of accusations that the NSC general counsel should have done more to address the complaints. “Some people have told him he should go out and set the record straight, but he won’t do it.”
Mr. Eisenberg then, according to the person familiar with his thinking, shared the complaints with Mr. Cipollone.
“Pat told John to raise it with the president, but he did not,” according to this person. “He didn’t think [the July 10 meeting] was important enough given other things that were going on…No one understood why [Mr. Sondland] was involved in Ukraine. Maybe he was blowing smoke and pretending to be more important than he is.”
