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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYTimes: Pentagon keeping security intel from Trump because they fear he'd leak it to a foreign
adversary. But Times waits until 21st paragraph in article to write this. Why????
Link to tweet
marble falls
(57,134 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)What a child....
FakeNoose
(32,675 posts)Remember when Chump cancelled his daily briefings? That happened less than a week after his inauguration. Every President since Eisenhower has had daily briefing meetings until now. Chump doesn't want to be briefed on anything, and they don't want to do it anyway.
Can you blame the intel professionals? I can't blame them one bit.
Lonestarblue
(10,030 posts)If he knew US intelligence secrets, he would tell Putin everything. I wonder whether the CIA is also making sure that Trump gets very little real intelligence. I recall that while Trump does not read the daily briefings, Kushner does, which means that at least Israel and Saudi Arabia know everything in those briefings.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)willing to do anything and everything to prop up their ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and his profoundly dangerous trashing of US Security.
Super sucky treasonous to be a lameass republican submissive whimp turning your glutted ass toward truth, honor, and US democracy.
lindysalsagal
(20,712 posts)I believe we have real patriots running our country, but the orangatan isn't one of them.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Almost a certainty, that trump would leak to a foreign adversary - to personally benefit traitortrump!!!
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Or trade it somehow to benefit himself.
I hope to God there's a faction in the Intel Community that is still running counter intelligence on that whole damn family.
mnhtnbb
(31,397 posts)Impeachment inquiry needs to be opened NOW.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)He fictionally sensationalizes things.
Headline: "they believe he'll leak"
Actual story: "concern over...the possibility that he might...discuss it"
Believing he will is very different from worrying about the possibility that he might.
SA routinely over-states things, he's a poor journalist, and I don't trust anything he says that isn't clearly sourced.
triron
(22,008 posts)Seth knows what's going on. Either you don't know or refuse to acknowledge.
How many books have you written on Trump-Russia-Saudi Arabia-Israel, etc. collusion?
Have you read any of his?
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)I've seen him do that kind of thing before. He is loose with facts and therefore unreliable as a journalist.
I forget the phrase he uses to describe himself, he used it in an interview (Colbert, maybe?), but basically (and this is NOT a knock) he has no special sources and does no investigative reporting... rather he culls through all the info that is public and puts the pieces together to assemble a cohesive narrative in ways he feels others may be missing. Paraphrasing, that's his own explanation of what he does, and it is a perfectly valid and potentially valuable way to assemble articles and books. But when you check those public sources he is relying on and see that they don't quite say exactly what he said they did, well, one loses faith in his work.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts).....he's just recycling information you could find on any news site and adding sinister what-if hypotheticals.
Oh, wait... That IS a conspiracy theorist!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Abramson
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)....he isn't making things up.... Per se.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Abramson
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)I mean we should be able to bust this guy with any stupid plot from any James Bond movie at this point....
tymorial
(3,433 posts)And they are well aware that Trump's reading comprehension isn't developed enough to read that far let alone capture his attention
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)And the Russians and other adversarial nations have some idea of what's going on with US election cybersecurity.
procon
(15,805 posts)After a more thoughtful assimilation of this revealing information, this is an unconscionable dereliction of duty. To a man, those who knew and participated in enabling this risk to our country should resign in disgrace and be court marshalled.
The Pentagon had first hand information that the current president of the United States is unfit for office and they did nothing. They disavowed their oathes of office and let a madman loose on the world. Not one of them came forward to inform the public that Trump poses a grave risk to our country. No deputation was sent to Congress to brief the leaders on the imminent threat to national security from the Oval Office.
They stand silent and let Trump think they love him and endorse his actions because he is allowed to do whatever he wants without checks or even a question about his fitness to serve.
Rhiannon12866
(205,664 posts)Trump has no filter, no one knows what he'll blurt out...
Blue Owl
(50,448 posts)How did we get here... HOW???
Luciferous
(6,084 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,093 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,933 posts)Ask MOSSAD who leaked word on the detection proof laptop bomb.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-leak-to-russians-revealed-israeli-cyber-hack-of-is-bomb-cell-report/
TASS foto
keithbvadu2
(36,840 posts)More secrets for Jared to sell.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth