Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

[bostonangler]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.cea994bd33ad

 

 

 

 

B/A

Edited May 15, 2017 by bostonangler

[Karsten]

Pretty simple Fake News ........Unknown partners to the US Government. Can't Disclose this, Wont Talk about that.

 

Next story.

 

Karsten

[Theseus]

First off a president can divulge classified information to the nirubians if he wants. The moment it leaves his lips to other than those who have clearance for it, it becomes declassiffied and the president is the only one with sole authority to declassify informatio previously classified. This is a non story trying to drum up dollars by the WaPo.

[Karsten]

https://www.facebook.com/475549362567960/videos/vb.475549362567960/1210056562450566/?type=2&theater&notif_t=live_video&notif_id=1494896377277837

 

Just sayin.

 

Karsten

[new york kevin]

Bostonangler, Bostonian in name only. You never said which country you actually live in. I am guessing Russia based on your latest anti Trump post. Links and verifiable sources please, else you will be tared and feathered with Luigi juice and sent packing. At least come up with something original.

[coorslite21]

All you have to see is that this story is from the Washington Post......and it reads......"according to current and former U.S. officials"......so why not save us from all the drama......who is making the claim.......

 

 

These reporting agencies must have some regulatory requirements.......time to start pulling licenses for fabricating stories.....JMO

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Ya know B/A if I were President Trump I would declare Martial Law and lock up every single lunatic psychotic liar in the media and their moronic robot followers in insane asylums for their pathetic attempt at a coup.  And the saddest part of all is that none of you understand that when he does that NO ONE is going to disagree with him. 

[Indraman]

Isn't it amazing that the Left and BA are having a hissy fit and getting their tidy-whities all knotted up over the POTUS sharing confidential information with representatives from another country, and yet they looked the other way when HRC set up a server in her basement and ran 4 years of top secret information across its wires.

 

Trump has the authority and power to share top secret information with the hot dog stand vendor on the local public street and it wouldn't be against the law. Everything HRC did broke the law. 

 

Indy

[yota691]

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

― Adolf Hitler

[Shabibilicious]

Whoa, careful out there, B/A.....Russians, Russians everywhere.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[yota691]

Donald J. Trump — President of the United States

 

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.

[rw.sutton]

Trump getting ready to spring it on them all, watch the snowflakes melt!

[yota691]

Trump Made No 'Classified' Leak, Someone Else Did

President Donald Trump meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office last week. (AP Photo/Russian Foreign Ministry)

By Christopher Ruddy
Monday, 15 May 2017 11:28 PM

 

 

 

The Washington Post reported Monday that President Trump revealed "highly classified" intelligence to Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during their recent meeting at the White House.

But the Post forgot to mention that the President’s conversation with Lavrov is itself among the most secret and classified matters our government holds – and the leak of key parts of that conversation is likely a crime.

This is now the third time in a short period that the president's most secret and private discussions with a world leader have been leaked to The Washington Post.

During his first week in office, the full transcripts of President Trump's phone conversations with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto were quickly leaked to the Post.

Such leaks are a serious and illegal attack on the presidency. They undermine the country, trust in the president and his ability to maintain global leadership.

There is a lot more of the onion to peel with this Washington Post story.

If you are watching CNN and MSNBC you may think the president committed a crime or even a horrific act of treason by sharing with the Russians secret intel and even super-secret sources.

But when we continue to peel this noxious onion we discover the facts just don't measure up to the allegations.

The Post headlines that the president revealed "highly classified" information, suggesting this was perhaps either illegal, improper, or both.

Forgive me, but the last I checked the president is commander-in-chief.

He can decide what is a classified secret. He decides what can be shared with allies, adversaries, or even the public. That's his decision – not some bureaucrat's!

So, what was that intel the president shared that was so secret?

If the Post story is believed, Trump told Lavrov the U.S. had intelligence of an ISIS terror plot.

Although the Russians are not allies, we do share a similar goal to wipe out ISIS. Trump has publicly expressed the hope we can work together on this goal.

 

Even if Trump shared this about ISIS, the likelihood of the Russians tipping off their enemies in ISIS seems quite small.

But thanks to an illegal leak made to The Washington Post, this information is now public and certainly known to ISIS.

Is anyone concerned about this?

Having been a student of American history, I have little doubt that U.S. presidents have shared "highly classified" intelligence with friends and foes in their private discussions.

But The Washington Post makes another unfair and unsubstantiated allegation: that President Trump himself revealed the actual source of U.S. intelligence.

This is a grave allegation.

Here's the key line from the Post: "Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State's territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat."

Citing unnamed sources, the Post claimed Trump has "jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State."

But Trump's National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Monday, "At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed, and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly."

Still, the Post continued its attack: "The identification of the location was seen as particularly problematic, officials said, because Russia could use that detail to help identify the U.S. ally or intelligence capability involved."

It’s a very big stretch to suggest that just by revealing the city of an ISIS threat to the Russians, they or anyone else could identify the source of this intelligence.

It’s not a stretch to me – or anyone with a thinking cap on – to realize when U.S. officials leak the president’s most secret conversations they are putting our national security at serious risk.

[Shabibilicious]

20 minutes ago, yota691 said:

Trump Made No 'Classified' Leak, Someone Else Did

President Donald Trump meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office last week. (AP Photo/Russian Foreign Ministry)

By Christopher Ruddy
Monday, 15 May 2017 11:28 PM

 

"Twistin...shake it shake it shake it...baby"....

 

GO RV, then BV

[MyLadiesDaddy]

4 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

"Twistin...shake it shake it shake it...baby"....

 

GO RV, then BV

Psychological self Projection?

[jg1]

Let's not even focus on what Hillarious did. Her email scandal the uranium scandal with Russia. Why not just use a Home Server with thousands and thousands of top-secret emails and say I didn't give out this information. It was leaked. The Clinton  Foundation , then BenGhazi . That's not Criminal, Right. President Trump is small-time compared to the Clinton scandals and they are still free. The liberal media will continue to jab at Trump and he will jab back. Silence fake news media not all media. There isn't much left.

[BJinMontreal]

Remember all those phones and tablets Hitlery kept losing?

 

Do you know one of the best ways to reveal secret information is to leave it open on your phone, laptop or tablet and then use that device as a drop ... for your counterspy to pick up and use as they please.

 

And then conveniently say you lost your blackberry again !!! and request another from the State Department.

[bostonangler]

2 hours ago, jg1 said:

Let's not even focus on what Hillarious did. Her email scandal the uranium scandal with Russia. Why not just use a Home Server with thousands and thousands of top-secret emails and say I didn't give out this information. It was leaked. The Clinton  Foundation , then BenGhazi . That's not Criminal, Right. President Trump is small-time compared to the Clinton scandals and they are still free. The liberal media will continue to jab at Trump and he will jab back. Silence fake news media not all media. There isn't much left.

Clinton isn't president... Clinton isn't using the presidential office for profit. I'm not saying she wouldn't have, but that is not relevant. What is relevant is Trump is president and a fool. He had the middle-class backing him, but the tide is turning quickly on this fraud.

 

B/A

[bostonangler]

15 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Ya know B/A if I were President Trump I would declare Martial Law and lock up every single lunatic psychotic liar in the media and their moronic robot followers in insane asylums for their pathetic attempt at a coup.  And the saddest part of all is that none of you understand that when he does that NO ONE is going to disagree with him. 

Martial law lock up the media... Sieg Hiel!

 

B/A

[umbertino]

Trump stands by 'absolute right' to share sensitive information with Russia

Trump reportedly shared Israeli intelligence related to Isis plot

 

Politicians and intelligence officials concerned information put sources at risk

 

Julian Borger and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington and Amanda Holpuchin New York

Tuesday 16 May 2017 21.59 BST

 

Trump with the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in the Oval Office last week. Trump’s Tuesday tweets contradicted flat denials issued by senior officials on Monday night.

Photograph: Tass/Barcroft

 

 

 

Vid in link

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/16/donald-trump-russia-shared-information

Edited May 16, 2017 by umbertino

[huffy2005]

19 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

All you have to see is that this story is from the Washington Post......and it reads......"according to current and former U.S. officials"......so why not save us from all the drama......who is making the claim.......

 

 

These reporting agencies must have some regulatory requirements.......time to start pulling licenses for fabricating stories.....JMO

WaPo and all libturds media is not good enough to use it as a toilet paper. It's best for birds and guinea pigs cage...

[MyLadiesDaddy]

7 hours ago, bostonangler said:

Martial law lock up the media... Sieg Hiel!

 

B/A

How's that any different than the Hugo Chavez style coup that the media and the left is involved in? 

One thing that is becoming more and more relevant these days to more and more people is that the left doesn't want to work with anyone. They only want to win and they will destroy anyone that stands in their way. So yes, one must fight fire with fire. It's human nature. By acting the way that they are the left is priming the pump for a dictator. You might wanna think about that as you and your cohorts push down on that pump handle.  

So let me say it plainly, Trump one. Let be what will be. In 4 yrs there will be another chance, just like it has been for over 240 yrs. 

[bostonangler]

7 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

How's that any different than the Hugo Chavez style coup that the media and the left is involved in? 

One thing that is becoming more and more relevant these days to more and more people is that the left doesn't want to work with anyone. They only want to win and they will destroy anyone that stands in their way. So yes, one must fight fire with fire. It's human nature. By acting the way that they are the left is priming the pump for a dictator. You might wanna think about that as you and your cohorts push down on that pump handle.  

So let me say it plainly, Trump one. Let be what will be. In 4 yrs there will be another chance, just like it has been for over 240 yrs. 

 

So are you saying your idea that Trump should shut down the country to those who disagree is in-line with Hugo, and that's a good thing?

 

 

B/A

[md11fr8dawg]

BA, you may get some answers very soon. Putin said this AM that he is willing to release the conversation Trump had with the Russian Ambassador. Let's see if he does, and if he does if that is the smoking gun all the liberturds are waiting for.

[yota691]

23 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

So are you saying your idea that Trump should shut down the country to those who disagree

Sounds like those that disagree with Trump are the ones shutting the country down, look around you can't see it (blinded) nor stand the fact Trump is President. Folks like you and others that disagree with Trump need to get over it or pack your bags an move to another country. America deserve better and quite frankly you folks are Embarrassment.