Trump Revealed Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister - WashPo

[Shalcker]

Say this information was provided by the Kurdish rebel forces, or Turkey or some other group/nation that are opposing the Syrian regime. Congratulations, you have now revealed a secret agent of theirs to the enemy.

Or perhaps it was Yemen raid that hit news in March?

At most it revealed existence of such agent. Existence that is quite obvious...

As for Turkey, everyone knows Turkey has ties to ISIS - hell, Russia revealed a lot more of Russian intelligence on ISIS-Turkey connection after Russian plane being shot down then Trump every could.

[xerus]

Yah, looking at what McMaster said, McMaster likely called his lawyer and the two went over what he would say. It has a legal ring to it.

Listening to McMaster's statement was a lesson in doublespeak and evasion.

[Brubear]

They probably don't care about something so petty as long as sources and methods are safe. The goal is to stop terrorism not give a courtesy jerk.

No one is going to stop sharing intel with the US over this they may insist on a heads up next time but they wont stop cooperating with US intel agencies.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...-intel-with-us

And they might not even be the sources of this intelligence that he leaked. Given that this leak potentially compromised the countries agent AND they specifically said we weren't to share this information, it's highly likely they're going to reconsider sharing future intelligence.

[Edge-]

So, with many of our allies reconsidering sharing intelligence with us out of concern that Trump will run his fucking mouth again to the Russians...

How's that focus on protecting American and "America First!" going? Seems like losing access to intelligence from our allies puts this countries interests and citizens in jeopardy.

What a fucking shitshow this is, Trump all but admitted to this in his tweets by re-asserting this "absolute authority" to declassify information.

I've been enjoying everyone putting together all the times Republicans said that anyone mishandling classified information (referring to Hillary) should not receive any classified briefings. Those comments/tweets have not aged well...oops.

[Uzkin]

As I said, the US should take serious legal action against this white house leaker and perhaps even against WP and NYT. They have compromised the US security and caused serious harm to the US interests.

[JohnBrown1917]

As I said, the US should take serious legal action against this white house leaker and perhaps even against WP and NYT. They have compromised the US security and caused serious harm to the US interests.

While the US has harmed its allies, they deserve to know the US can not be trusted at the moment.

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Man, you're hard to move America.

[Beazy]

[s_bushido]

As I said, the US should take serious legal action against this white house leaker and perhaps even against WP and NYT. They have compromised the US security and caused serious harm to the US interests.

The White House leaker? What, you mean Trump?

[araine]

Say this information was provided by the Kurdish rebel forces, or Turkey or some other group/nation that are opposing the Syrian regime. Congratulations, you have now revealed a secret agent of theirs to the enemy.

It is donny so no big deal is the consensus we get from his supporters and the total INSANE nonsense Obama did it as well well here is the thing he did NOT no amount of right wing LIES and alternative facts will change this

[Uzkin]

The White House leaker? What, you mean Trump?

No. By definition, "leak" is an unauthorized release of information. The president of the United States has the authority.

[Cyonus]

But people were screaming about similar things during Obama's reign. Hell, remember "more flexibility after election" hot mic moment with Medvedev? That's more collusion with Russia then anyone ever proved for Trump. And Obama wasn't removed from office.

Also, most of the stuff Donny abuses now was created by Obama - like president ability to share anything with anyone on terror plots on whim.

He did, he wasn't, and neither will Trump. Time to accept it.

So this statement is just complete wrong. Saying that you would be able to be more flexible on negotiations to come to a diplomatic solution that works for with an adversary is one thing.

Having that same adversary break your laws, to tarnish your political rival so you can get elected is not even remotely close. Neither is Giving away highly classified information that could endanger no only relationships with allies and sources of information, but the lives of the braves souls who are putting in all on the line to get that information.

[Azadina]

As I said, the US should take serious legal action against this white house leaker and perhaps even against WP and NYT. They have compromised the US security and caused serious harm to the US interests.

Yes, punish those media for not personally pledging loyalty to Führer Trump above all else.

[Shalcker]

So, with many of our allies reconsidering sharing intelligence with us out of concern that Trump will run his fucking mouth again to the Russians...

How's that focus on protecting American and "America First!" going? Seems like losing access to intelligence from our allies puts this countries interests and citizens in jeopardy.

Well, obviously he'll just replace "allied" intelligence with Russian! Hits all his goals - cooperation with Russia and anti-ISIS!

A few success stories and everyone will forget about how bad is Trump-Russia connection too! Win-win!

[Brubear]

Watching this now, waiting him to finish his outline of this trip/visit because I'm really curious how he's going to explain his statement yesterday after Trumps tweets this morning.

*EDIT* Oh man, his face, his face. You saw him cringe as soon as they started their question.

That doublespeak though. "I meant 'the premise of the article' was false. The REAL problem are the leakers!"

[jdbond592]

I personally don't care about legality of this information sharing. Consequences be damned. I only came to see the reaction of Trump supporters who usually respond to these kind of leaks with "FAKE NEWS" slogan. They didn't disappoint. Ofcourse some have gone underground after God-Emperor's tweet. Ramifications of God-Emperor's action will reveal themselves soon enough.

Remember, this guy was elected to make America great again. I just like watching this glorious ride..

P.S: America has lost many many manufacturing jobs since Trump took-over.

[JohnBrown1917]

No. By definition, "leak" is an unauthorized release of information. The president of the United States has the authority.

Sounds more like whistleblowing to me.

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Or perhaps it was Yemen raid that hit news in March?

At most it revealed existence of such agent. Existence that is quite obvious...

As for Turkey, everyone knows Turkey has ties to ISIS - hell, Russia revealed a lot more of Russian intelligence on ISIS-Turkey connection after Russian plane being shot down then Trump every could.

By revealing the location of the agent it may be obvious as to what agent it might be. Also, not all information was revealed in the article, and it was "much worse than what was being reported".

[Shalcker]

So this statement is just complete wrong. Saying that you would be able to be more flexible on negotiations to come to a diplomatic solution that works for with an adversary is one thing.

That's not what Republicans were saying at the time! Do check it out :P

Having that same adversary break your laws, to tarnish your political rival so you can get elected is not even remotely close. Neither is Giving away highly classified information that could endanger no only relationships with allies and sources of information, but the lives of the braves souls who are putting in all on the line to get that information.

Or it could not. As claim those who actually heard this information being shared.

[AndaliteBandit]

As I said, the US should take serious legal action against this white house leaker and perhaps even against WP and NYT. They have compromised the US security and caused serious harm to the US interests.

Snitches get stitches, eh? You sound like quite the thug.