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It was just light #FakeNews and govt officials leaking classified material to the WP...

HoustonHusky
HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,000
Prez and 3 Senior US Officials there...all 3 senior US official deny the story:
McMaster: "The story as it came out tonight as reported is false". "I was in the room. It didn't happen"
Tillerson: ""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,"
Powell: "This story is false.  The president only discussed the common threats that both countries faced."

Yet somehow the WP now has the classified details that it doesn't want to publish on something that wasn't talked about according to the 3 senior US officials present...
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  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Obama visited the WAPO newsroom to cheers.

    The enemy is within and must be stopped and Trump is on it.
  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390

    Prez and 3 Senior US Officials there...all 3 senior US official deny the story:
    McMaster: "The story as it came out tonight as reported is false". "I was in the room. It didn't happen"
    Tillerson: ""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,"
    Powell: "This story is false.  The president only discussed the common threats that both countries faced."

    Yet somehow the WP now has the classified details that it doesn't want to publish on something that wasn't talked about according to the 3 senior US officials present...

    The WH denied things that were not in the WaPo story. Trump admitted to compromising national security sources this morning.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    No, he didn't.

    Wipe your chin
  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390
    doogie said:

    No, he didn't.

    Wipe your chin

    I understand your frustration.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Frustration? Loving every minute of this.

    It hasn't even started yet.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    doogie said:

    Frustration? Loving every minute of this.

    It hasn't even started yet.

    I also enjoy all this winning
  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390
    doogie said:

    Frustration? Loving every minute of this.

    It hasn't even started yet.

    Me too! The trump administration is a real hoot.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Working well for me. Sorry you've been emotionally crippled.
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    Just like in 2007-08, there was a 28% who supported GWB to the bitter end, we're seeing the 28% of Troomps. The unpersuadables.

    I'm surprised I'm surprised.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Productive people love Trump. Hth
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,811 Standard Supporter
    It takes time to root out the communist plants placed by Obunghole. But it will happen and they will enjoy their stay in the gray bar hotel.
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,000

    You two should really check out Trump's tweets.

    He confirmed the story.

    No he didn't.

    As McMaster just said, the "WP article is based on a false premise", that the "Oval Office talk was wholly appropriate", that Trump did not disclose any information on sources or methods, and that the leaks to the WP itself put "National Security at risky".

    Any idiot knew there was a laptop bomb threat, which is why the Feds just banned laptops on-board airlines from certain countries and are talking about doing it for all of Europe. Telling that to the Russian PM (as we did with other allies) isn't "light treason" as some idiots around here like to think.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    You two should really check out Trump's tweets.

    He confirmed the story.

    No he didn't.

    As McMaster just said, the "WP article is based on a false premise", that the "Oval Office talk was wholly appropriate", that Trump did not disclose any information on sources or methods, and that the leaks to the WP itself put "National Security at risky".

    Any idiot knew there was a laptop bomb threat, which is why the Feds just banned laptops on-board airlines from certain countries and are talking about doing it for all of Europe. Telling that to the Russian PM (as we did with other allies) isn't "light treason" as some idiots around here like to think.
    The WaPo didn't say that Trump disclosed any information on sources or methods.

    But still.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,030 Founders Club
    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
    WaPo didn't. NPR pretty much did.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
    WaPo didn't. NPR pretty much did.
    I still don't see specific sources or methods being discussed. All I see is that Trump potentially sabotaged America's ability to get intel from allies in the future.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
    WaPo didn't. NPR pretty much did.
    I still don't see specific sources or methods being discussed. All I see is that Trump potentially sabotaged America's ability to get intel from allies in the future.
    KOMO, in passing, blahblah, heard the report DRIVING HOME IN MY CAR last night, not going to listen again. But as I recall, it was at least heavily implied that Trump disclosed enough of sources & methods for the Russians to easily reverse it back to actual source.
    Had I been in a train, I could have taken notes. Missed opportunities.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
    WaPo didn't. NPR pretty much did.
    I still don't see specific sources or methods being discussed. All I see is that Trump potentially sabotaged America's ability to get intel from allies in the future.
    KOMO, in passing, blahblah, heard the report DRIVING HOME IN MY CAR last night, not going to listen again. But as I recall, it was at least heavily implied that Trump disclosed enough of sources & methods for the Russians to easily reverse it back to actual source.
    Had I been in a train, I could have taken notes. Missed opportunities.
    I've seen that implication as well. There's a difference between that and stating as fact that Trump discussed sources and methods.

    To reiterate:
    What Trump did was perfectly legal and perfectly stupid.
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,000

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
    WaPo didn't. NPR pretty much did.
    I still don't see specific sources or methods being discussed. All I see is that Trump potentially sabotaged America's ability to get intel from allies in the future.
    Which McMaster specifically said was false, as did the other 2 senior officials in the room. But why deal with reality...

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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
    WaPo didn't. NPR pretty much did.
    I still don't see specific sources or methods being discussed. All I see is that Trump potentially sabotaged America's ability to get intel from allies in the future.
    Which McMaster specifically said was false, as did the other 2 senior officials in the room. But why deal with reality...

    image
    Your reading comprehension sucks.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-defends-himself-over-reports-he-shared-classified-information-with-russia-1494935776
    In a news briefing Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s national-security adviser, Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster, said Mr. Trump’s conversation “was wholly appropriate” but that he believed the leaking of it put national security at risk.

    Gen. McMaster wouldn’t discuss whether information Mr. Trump conveyed to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador was classified, but that the president had “in no way compromised any sources or methods in this conversation.”

    He also said he was “not concerned at all” about the potential for U.S. information-sharing relationships to be in jeopardy and added that Mr. Trump “wasn’t even aware of where this information came from. He wasn’t briefed on the source.
    The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Mr. Trump divulged details about Islamic State to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in his meeting last week in a way that revealed enough information for them to potentially compromise the source of the intelligence, according to officials, who said the intelligence came from the U.S. ally.
    “It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting,” Gen. McMaster said of the president’s discussion of threats from Islamic State-controlled territories in his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. “It had all to do with operations that are already ongoing have been made public for months.”


    Asked why White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert had placed calls to the directors of the CIA and NSA after the meeting if Mr. Trump hadn’t disclosed any sensitive intelligence, Gen. McMaster said he hadn’t spoken with Mr. Bossert but that the adviser could have done so “out of an overabundance of caution.”

  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    We all know Trump didn't know the source or method.

    Anything else we all agree on that you want to argue?
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    We all know Trump didn't know the source or method.

    Anything else we all agree on that you want to argue?

    It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting
    That's chinteresting.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    We all know Trump didn't know the source or method.

    Anything else we all agree on that you want to argue?

    It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting
    That's chinteresting.
    If that is true, why did Trump even bring it up...much less brag about it?
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    AZDuck said:

    Just like in 2007-08, there was a 28% who supported GWB to the bitter end, we're seeing the 28% of Troomps. The unpersuadables.

    I'm surprised I'm surprised.

    Don't try to confuse boobs with facts

    It works

    Feel free to show me where the WaPo said Trump disclosed sources or methods.

    I'm willing to view actual facts.
    rotfl
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Update:

    Trump leaked Israeli intelligence.

    That will go well.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    We all know Trump didn't know the source or method.

    Anything else we all agree on that you want to argue?

    It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting
    That's chinteresting.
    If that is true, why did Trump even bring it up...much less brag about it?
    Huh?
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    We all know Trump didn't know the source or method.

    Anything else we all agree on that you want to argue?

    It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting
    That's chinteresting.
    If that is true, why did Trump even bring it up...much less brag about it?
    Huh?
    Trump bragged to the Russians about having the best intel.