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20×102mm Vulcan
It’s time for the President to take on the Trump-hating bureaucracy.
So.
Last night the Washington Post sends the media nerve system crazy with this story:
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats
The story begins as follows, bold print supplied:
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.
The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.
“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”
Take note of two things.
First: The existence of the story itself, unpublishable if someone in that room did not leak to someone else — who may, in turn, have leaked to someone else — in this case the Washington Post.
Second: Note this line, again, bold print supplied: “… according to current and former U.S. officials…”
Catch that? The words “… and former U.S.officials…?” How does any “former U.S. official” have any access… any access at all… to what did or did not go on
The Sabotaging of the President
So.
Last night the Washington Post sends the media nerve system crazy with this story:
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats
The story begins as follows, bold print supplied:
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.
The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.
“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”
Take note of two things.
First: The existence of the story itself, unpublishable if someone in that room did not leak to someone else — who may, in turn, have leaked to someone else — in this case the Washington Post.
Second: Note this line, again, bold print supplied: “… according to current and former U.S. officials…”
Catch that? The words “… and former U.S.officials…?” How does any “former U.S. official” have any access… any access at all… to what did or did not go on
The Sabotaging of the President
