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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Azor...so now will you finally stop defending Trump and his failed Syrian policies as there are none....



    Again, this statement is carefully worded. The declaration that the story “as reported” is untrue leaves plenty of room for the administration to pinpoint discrepancies in the Post story without denying the substance. And once again, McMaster does not deny that an egregious breach of national security information was revealed, merely that “intelligence sources or methods [were] discussed” and that the President “disclose[d] any military operations that were not publicly known.” The Post’s Greg Miller, one of the two reporters who broke the story, accused the White House of “playing word games” in response to McMaster’s press conference. And indeed, if McMaster meant to be denying that anything harmful was said in the Oval Office, then it is hard to understand why (as the Post reports) “senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency,” or whythe Post agreed not to publish certain details of the plot discussed in the Oval Office after “officials” warned that doing so would “jeopardize important intelligence capabilities."

    There may be disclosures yet to come. According to one current U.S. official quoted in Buzzfeed, the situation is “far worse than what has already been reported.” The New York Times writes that “sharing the information without the express permission of the ally who provided it ... could jeopardize a crucial intelligence-sharing relationship.”

    This is perhaps the gravest allegation of presidential misconduct in the scandal-ridden four months of the Trump administration.


    IF I had ever openly stated what I knew on intel like this dumb move by Trump due to stroking his own ego I would have ended up in prison for a minimum of 10 years....

    REMEMBER I never did say I was in a SF unit in Berlin until 1 JAN 2015....THIRTY years later (DEC 1984 when it was deactivated) and only when the DoD unclassified our existence.....BUT NEVER declassified our missions nor our training, tactics and techniques.....AND the President of the US cannot keep his mouth shut????

    Trump has no earthly idea about intel nor security EVEN AFTER constantly bashing Clinton and her email server....so did his rants of "lock her up" now apply to him????
    We have inside 24 hours gone from Trump declaring this Washington Post article "fake news"

    TO "I have the right to do it".......

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    As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism.

    BUT WAIT...this is not the typical Trump tweeting style....someone wrote it for him....

    BUT Trump does not have the right to openly and completely violate US National Security and to ignore Federal Security Regulations and Laws.....

    OR to risk the life of an undercover field agent working for an allied security service....JUST to impress someone......

    ANYONE who fully understands the Russian role in supporting Assad, PKK, IS and Iran knows if they could identify the undercover agent they would kill him....

    SINCE WHEN has the WH Oval Office become a SCIF for Russian visitors to get US intel updates

    Gen. McMaster, Monday night: "It didn't happen."
    President Trump, Tuesday morning: Yes it did.


    "That person is likely dead." - @JulietteKayyem on CNN about source who infiltrated ISIS who the President (THE PRESIDENT) just compromised

    And one senior Nato diplomat quoted by Reuters said: "If true, this is not going to instill confidence in allies already wary of sharing the most sensitive information."

    But he added: "Our story says that the nature of the information provided would have allowed the Russians to 'reverse engineer' to discover the sources and methods. He said so much that they could figure it out."
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 05-16-2017 at 12:27 PM.

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