Good morning. 
Friday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of sixty-seven. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 6:42 PM, for 11h 54m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand fifty-third day.
On this day in 1862, the 29th Wisconsin Infantry musters in: “It would go on to participate in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hill, the Sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson, the Red River Campaign, the siege of Spanish Fort and the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama.”
Recommended for reading in full:
Karen DeYoung reports More than 300 former officials call Trump’s actions concerning Ukraine ‘profound national security concern’:
More than 300 former U.S. national security and foreign policy officials have signed a statement warning that President Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine are a “profound national security concern” and supporting an impeachment inquiry by Congress to determine “the facts.”
“To be clear, we do not wish to prejudge the totality of the facts or Congress’ deliberative process,” said the statement, released Friday. “At the same time, there is no escaping that what we already know is serious enough to merit impeachment proceedings.”
[Read the full statement from former officials]
The collection of signatures was set in motion by National Security Action, an organization founded and largely populated by officials from the Obama administration to call attention to Trump’s “reckless leadership.”
Many of the signers are former Obama officials. But the list includes others who served as career officials in both Democratic and Republican administrations, including Matthew Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s national security division under President George W. Bush and director of the National Counterterrorism Center under President Barack Obama.
Phil Helsel and Kurt Chirbas report N. Carolina detective accused of sending inappropriate messages to sex assault victims is fired (‘He is said to have sent messages to women whose sexual assault cases he had previously investigated’):
Paul G. Matrafailo III, who had been a member of the Fayetteville Police Department’s crisis intervention team, was fired from the force earlier this year, NBC affiliate WRAL of Raleigh reported Thursday, citing a dismissal letter.
Fayetteville police did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.
The May 7 dismissal letter, which was shared with NBC News, says that police received a complaint March 5 that accused Matrafailo of contacting a sexual assault victim through Instagram and “began a conversation with her that she felt was inappropriate” and making a second attempt at contact March 9. Matrafailo had investigated the victim’s 2016 case.
Deanne Gerdes, executive director of the Rape Crisis Volunteers of Cumberland County, told WRAL that three women who had been sexually assaulted complained that Matrafailo, who had handled their cases, was sending them inappropriate texts or messages.
One woman told the station that Matrafailo sent her messages about lingerie she was planning to buy.