Missy89:
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No time for stupidity this week. Let me know what you have something interesting to say.

Missy89:


True.
As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law. That is if the story is true in the first place.

oyb:


One wonders just what kind of soldier you must have been . Your commander in chief is jeopardizing the security of the US, and you are still making excuses. They clearly do not make soldiers the way they used to anymore. You probably hold Mike Flynn, a paid traitor, in high regard.


Who needs an email server when you have a dyed in the wool traitor in the White House?

oyb:


One wonders just what kind of soldier you must have been . Your commander in chief is jeopardizing the security of the US, and you are still making excuses. They clearly do not make soldiers the way they used to anymore. You probably hold Mike Flynn, a paid traitor, in high regard.


Who needs an email server when you have a dyed in the wool traitor in the White House?

n a span of 24 hours last week, President Trump startled his senior aides by firing the FBI director investigating his campaign's Russian ties and allegedly disclosing highly classified information to Russian officials in a free-wheeling Oval Office conversation.

Trump, according to people who spoke with him, was taken aback by the backlash to the firing and unfazed by the conversation with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador.

As Trump eyes a reorganization of his senior staff and blames a range of misfires on former President Barack Obama, warring White House aides, an ineffective communications shop, the "failing" news media, members of Congress and others, the latest episodes reveal what senior aides and advisers privately say: The problems often come from the top.

"It never stops," one White House official said via text message Monday night. "Basically chaos at all times."

The episode regarding classified information, which allegedly occurred last Wednesday in the Oval Office, was first reported by The Washington Post and sent his White House again in crisis control mode, days ahead of his first foreign trip. Aides had sought a calm week to avoid a widespread staff shake-up, which a displeased Trump has groused about to advisers and associates for the past four days. Earlier Monday, several officials said they were scrambling behind the scenes to appease Trump and avoid any seismic moves ahead of the trip.

The lengthy Washington Post report said Trump shared information about Islamic State operations with Russia that was "highly classified" and obtained through an intelligence-sharing partner that had not given the United States permission to share the information. While his conduct did not likely break the law — presidents can declassify information when they choose — it struck current and former U.S. intelligence officials as highly unusual.

"I get great intel," Trump bragged to the Russian officials, according to the Washington Post, before sharing it.

White House officials sent out a range of statements disputing the story, including ones from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster. "This story is false," read a statement from Dina Powell, a deputy national security adviser who attended the meeting.


She didn't explain what was false about the story, and McMaster also did not address many aspects of the report as he briefly addressed reporters, without taking questions.

“The story that came out tonight as reported is false,” McMaster said. "At no time, at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known."

Tillerson, in his statement, said, "During President Trump’s meeting with Foreign Minister Lavrov a broad range of subjects were discussed among which were common efforts and threats regarding counter-terrorism. During that exchange the nature of specific threats were discussed, but they did not discuss sources, methods or military operations.”

A spokesman for the National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment.

But several advisers and others close to Trump said they wouldn't be surprised if Trump gave information he shouldn't have.

One adviser who often speaks to the president said the conversation was likely freewheeling in the Oval Office, and he probably wanted to impress the officials.

"He doesn't really know any boundaries. He doesn't think in those terms," this adviser said. "He doesn't sometimes realize the implications of what he's saying. I don't think it was his intention in any way to share any classified information. He wouldn't want to do that."

At the White House, reporters crowded outside White House press secretary Sean Spicer's office, as his door remained closed. Before long, principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stepped out from the hallway near the Oval Office to inform the waiting reporters that the White House would be delivering no additional comment Monday night and would not be taking any questions.

“Tonight we are not doing any other question and answering at this moment,” she said. “I’ve said all we’re going to say.”

oyb:
https://secure.politico.com/story/2017/05/15/trump-russia-classified-information-238417

LordReed:


Easy to work around, he'll just say he has declassified it.

oyb:


One wonders just what kind of soldier you must have been . Your commander in chief is jeopardizing the security of the US, and you are still making excuses. They clearly do not make soldiers the way they used to anymore. You probably hold Mike Flynn, a paid traitor, in high regard.


Who needs an email server when you have a dyed in the wool traitor in the White House?

Missy89:


True.
As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law. That is if the story is true in the first place.

Mindfulness:


They were trained to obey and drop their conscience and free will so no surprise here.

Mindfulness:
Snowden has given serious information to China and Russia-anyone who thinks otherwise is a dope! He is a traitor who fled-he knew the crime!
Trump, 11 Jul 2013


Call it any way you like, but Snowden is a traitor. When our country was great do you know what we did to traitors?
Trump, 27 Jun 2013

Crooked Hillary Clinton and her team "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information." Not fit!
Trump, 6 Jul 2016

TheShopKeeper:
Since no US press or photographers were allowed in the meeting between WH and the Kremlin, the story was leaked out by US officials who were present at the meeting with the Russians - look no further than the Secretary of State, NSA Director, Deputy NSA or even the Russian press....

This is definetely a seriuos issue for the US Intelligence community, if their C-I-C is a blabber mouth.

Missy89:


True.
As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law. That is if the story is true in the first place.

Lucasbalo:
Imagine a President of US meeting with a German Leader ( Angela Merkel) and he wouldn't shake her hand but was all lovey dovey with Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador . American media were banned from the meeting in the WH while Russia media were allowed in hence the smiling pictures of the traitor that came out. Tell me if that's not a stooge doing his masters bidding. No president in American history will divulge a classified info to Russia but the lapdogs supporting trump will never see anything wrong in him. How can any sane and rational being not believe that the clueless one in the Oval Office is a Russian stooge.

TheShopKeeper:
Since no US press or photographers were allowed in the meeting between WH and the Kremlin, the story was leaked out by US officials who were present at the meeting with the Russians - look no further than the Secretary of State, NSA Director, Deputy NSA or even the Russian press....

This is definetely a seriuos issue for the US Intelligence community, if their C-I-C is a blabber mouth.

Mindfulness:


I would guess Merkel was rather glad he did not. Who knows whose pvssy he grabbed beforehand.

Targeting the media is the tool of dictators. Are people really so stupid not to know it?
He welcomed the media controlled by the Russian government but banned US media? And people do not find it worth protesting?

I would much rather have biased media, left and right leaning, than have no free media at all, which is one of the pillars of a democracy. I wonder how people cannot know it and I wonder how Americans will shout FREEDOM and in the next breath support Trump in his battle against the freedom of the press.

Mindfulness:


Since the media was excluded, people will have to rely on he said, she said. This is what you get when you fight yourself by fighting the freedom of the press. Only dictators go against the freedom of the press.

Lucasbalo:
Trump's approval rating is going down the sewage that it belongs to. I said it during the campaign that trump was a typical New York two bit hustler and people thought I was making it up. Tell me a so called Billionaire that will scam hard working Americans with a useless Fake, Unacreddited and Worthless Trump University ?. When the pressure gets to him, he had to settle with $25 million . Americans are waking up to the Queen born scam artist and I am Begining to smell the end of his regime. It's one scandal after another and the clown hasn't been in office for six months. Imagine if Obama is this scandalous when he was president ?. The Republicons will be pulling their hairs out crying for impeachment.

TheShopKeeper:
Since no US press or photographers were allowed in the meeting between WH and the Kremlin, the story was leaked out by US officials who were present at the meeting with the Russians - look no further than the Secretary of State, NSA Director, Deputy NSA or even the Russian press....

This is definetely a seriuos issue for the US Intelligence community, if their C-I-C is a blabber mouth.

LordReed:


It was not leaked by US officials it was broadcasted by the Russian press. It even caught US officials by surprise.

I Know One of the Sources
By Erick Erickson | May 16, 2017, 09:49am | @ewerickson

I tend to take these stories about the President with a grain of salt. We have seen key details of a number of salacious stories retracted within 48 hours. The media hates the President so much that they’ll run a negative story about him without very much provocation. Anti-Trump sources embedded within the administration in the career civil service, etc. will leak to the press and confirmation bias sets in.

What sets this story apart for me, at least, is that I know one of the sources. And the source is solidly supportive of President Trump, or at least has been and was during Campaign 2016. But the President will not take any internal criticism, no matter how politely it is given. He does not want advice, cannot be corrected, and is too insecure to see any constructive feedback as anything other than an attack.

So some of the sources are left with no other option but to go to the media, leak the story, and hope that the intense blowback gives the President a swift kick in the butt. Perhaps then he will recognize he screwed up. The President cares vastly more about what the press says than what his advisers say. That is a real problem and one his advisers are having to recognize and use, even if it causes messy stories to get outside the White House perimeter.

I am told that what the President did is actually far worse than what is being reported. The President does not seem to realize or appreciate that his bragging can undermine relationships with our allies and with human intelligence sources. He also does not seem to appreciate that his loose lips can get valuable assets in the field killed.

You can call these sources disloyal, traitors, or whatever you want. But please ask yourself a question — if the President, through inexperience and ignorance, is jeopardizing our national security and will not take advice or corrective action, what other means are available to get the President to listen and recognize the error of his ways?

This is a real problem and I treat this story very seriously because I know just how credible, competent, and serious — as well as seriously pro-Trump, at least one of the sources is.

schwarzkopf:
Ny times breaking news: Trump asked comey to end Flynn probe. One day one goof... This administration is an emotional drain on Americans.