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."Deputy national security advisor Dina Powell has denied the story as false. Notably, national security advisor General H.R. McMaster limited his denial to the fact that, “At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly.” Likewise, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has denied disclosure of any information on “sources, methods or military operations.” These are both very carefully worded statements that leave open the possibility that classified information was disclosed other than sources and methods or that classified information was disclosed which might be used as a basis to infer sources and methods not directly disclosed. Typically, policies related to the safeguarding of classified information treat both sources and methods information and information pertaining to or related to sources and methods in the same category.
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????
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