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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDO NOT CONGRATULATE: Patriotic anonymous sources continue their stellar work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/03/21/do-not-congratulate-patriotic-anonymous-sources-continue-their-stellar-work/?utm_term=.a8308a245719<snip>
According to CNN, Trump is furious over the leak of the DO NOT CONGRATULATE guidance. Trump was fuming Tuesday night, asking his allies and outside advisers who they thought had leaked the information, noting that only a small group of staffers have access to those materials and would have known what guidance was included for the Putin call, reported CNN, citing a source familiar with the presidents thinking. And where there are leaks, there are countermeasures in the offing. White House chief of staff John Kelly also is furious that a confidential presidential briefing became public knowledge, a White House official said, and intends to address the matter Wednesday as aides try to figure out who disclosed the warning, indicated the CNN story.
A more constructive response might be to insist that the president of the United States treat Putins Russia like the foe that it has proved to be. Check with the intelligence community, which has concluded that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election. Check with the United States closest overseas ally, Britain, which is defending its sovereignty following the chemical attack against the Skripals.
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Clearly theres a whistleblowing component to this, says Jesselyn Radack, director of whistleblower and source protection at ExposeFacts. The move by certain unnamed sources to clarify that the president was freelancing in his chat with Putin continues a rift between Trump and the national security establishment that started way back when. During the presidential transition, for example, Trump hammered the intelligence community after The Post reported that Russia had meddled in the presidential election to assist Trump. These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, said the Trump transition team in a statement.
Patriotic transparency agents are all over the place these days not only in Washington corridors but also in the adult-film industry. Stormy Daniels is suing to get out of a $130,000 hush agreement so that she can talk about her alleged affair with Trump. And Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model, is suing for extrication from a $150,000 agreement with the parent company of the National Enquirer so that she can speak freely about her own alleged affair with Trump. In both cases, Trump denies involvement. Some of the strongest whistleblowing is coming from women whove been able to get around non-disclosure agreements to talk about some really painful truths on their part and massive lies by Trump that could have cost him the election, says Radack.
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DO NOT CONGRATULATE: Patriotic anonymous sources continue their stellar work (Original Post)
kentuck
Mar 2018
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So the traitor, the law breaker is the one who told us our president is a traitor owned by our enemy
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. So the traitor, the law breaker is the one who told us our president is a traitor owned by our enemy
right, yeah, sure.
The fact he is still in office is proof half of our country simply are not interested in patriotism.