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Topic: Agent Orange strikes again
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Node
Knowflake Posts: 2704
From: 2,021 mi East of Truth or Consequences NM
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 25, 2017 02:29 PM
  
The Crown Prince of Politwits felt the need to meet with the Russian ambassador and the foreign minister at the behest of Vladimir Putin and in the course of their conversation he bragged that he had “great intel” and proceeded to expose a foreign ally’s asset by giving them highly sensitive “code-word” intelligence without the ally’s permission. As former CIA chief John Brennan explained in testimony before Congress this week, while it’s true that a president has the authority to declassify information, he is supposed to follow protocols:
The first [protocol] is that this kind of intelligence is not shared with visiting foreign ministers or local ambassadors. It’s shared through intelligence channels. The second is that, before sharing any classified intelligence with foreign partners, it has to go back to the originating agency to ensure that revealing it won’t compromise sources, methods and future collection capabilities.
There has never been a need for a protocol to guide a proudly ignorant, inexperienced president with a pathological need to brag to everyone he meets, since nobody anticipated such a thing before. Now we know. And nobody anticipated that this same president would visit the foreign ally he exposed and confirm to reporters from all over the world that it had been the source of that intelligence. But Trump did that too. IP: Logged |
Node
Knowflake Posts: 2704
From: 2,021 mi East of Truth or Consequences NM
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 25, 2017 02:31 PM
But that wasn’t the only report we had this week of Donald Trump’s loose lips putting national security in danger. The Intercept released a transcript of the Trump’s recent phone call with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The actual words were worse than we knew. Not only did the president effusively compliment Duterte on his murderous drug war, he also insulted former President Barack Obama for failing to be equally impressed. The two leaders discussed the threat from North Korea, mused about the mental state of Kim Jong-un and batted around the idea that nuclear war might end up being necessary. Trump said he hoped the Chinese would take care of it but promised that if they didn’t the U.S. would. Then he shared some military secrets with a foreign leader widely seen as unbalanced and untrustworthy:
We have two submarines – the best in the world – we have two nuclear submarines – not that we want to use them at all. I’ve never seen anything like they are but we don’t have to use this but [Kim] could be crazy so we will see what happens.
According to BuzzFeed, the Pentagon was in shock. IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 9754
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 25, 2017 02:50 PM
Give your delusions a "time out".John Brennen...ex Director of the Central Intelligence Agency..CIA says he often shared secret intelligence with governments of other nations. Your mountain doesn't even rise to the level of a "mole hill". IP: Logged |
Catalina
Knowflake Posts: 4099
From: shamballa
Registered: Aug 2013
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posted May 25, 2017 04:42 PM
Yes thru intel channels but not off ththe r cuff to non intel persons and without clearance. Head in sand blocks eyes and ears jwhop. Brennans words are quoted by node.. and i heard him say them myself on live vidIP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 79999
From: From a galaxy, far, far away...
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 25, 2017 05:28 PM
Protocol isn't law. We all know President Trump is not a conventional politician, and we love that about him. President Trump can declassify anything he wants to. And the nuclear submarine reveal would be huuuuuuge if not for one thing: It's already public knowledge.IP: Logged |
Node
Knowflake Posts: 2704
From: 2,021 mi East of Truth or Consequences NM
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 25, 2017 06:58 PM
  same as it ever was IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 9754
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 26, 2017 10:20 AM
The crux of the matter. Thanks Randall.  "President Trump can declassify anything he wants to" But, where were the howling lunatics who are now screeching about President Trump WHEN Jimmy (The Teeth) Carter blurted out...in public, the existence of America's stealth fighter/bomber which became the F-117? IP: Logged |
teasel
Knowflake Posts: 10065
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 26, 2017 12:50 PM
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Originally posted by jwhop:
The crux of the matter. Thanks Randall. [b]"President Trump can declassify anything he wants to" But, where were the howling lunatics who are now screeching about President Trump WHEN Jimmy (The Teeth) Carter blurted out...in public, the existence of America's stealth fighter/bomber which became the F-117? [/B]
You weren't howling about it at the time? I was a baby when he was elected. IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 79999
From: From a galaxy, far, far away...
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 26, 2017 03:01 PM
They would have been defending him, of course.IP: Logged |
teasel
Knowflake Posts: 10065
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 26, 2017 03:04 PM
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Originally posted by Randall:
They would have been defending him, of course.
As I recall, he wasn't a popular President. So I think you're wrong. IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 9754
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 26, 2017 05:00 PM
Ronald Reagan put Carter's political career in the grave...before Jimmy "The Teeth" could do any more damage to America.Successive American Presidents have had to deal with the consequences of Carter's stupidity. IP: Logged |
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