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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump leaked classified CIA intel to Tucker Carlson on live TV: ranking House intel member
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-leaked-classified-cia-intel-to-tucker-carlson-on-live-tv-ranking-house-intel-member/
TheHill.com reported that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said in a press release, In his effort to once again blame Obama, the President appeared to have discussed something that, if true and accurate, would otherwise be considered classified information.
I just want people to know, the CIA was hacked, and a lot of things taken that was during the Obama years, claimed Trump Wednesday night. That was not during us. That was during the Obama situation. Mike Pompeo is there now doing a fantastic job.
Schiff said, The President has the power to declassify whatever he wants, but this should be done as the product of thoughtful consideration and with intense input from any agency affected. For anyone else to do what the President may have done, would constitute what he deplores as leaks.
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ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)He doesn't know what he's doing.
Anyways, who cares if national security is compromised, as long as HE is seen to be far superior to Obama!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)President Trump revealed this very sensitive information so that the folks who hacked the CIA could confirm that they had been successful, and also to tip them off that the CIA knows about them (so cool it, maybe?).
Prove that wholly baseless and uninformed speculation wrong. Because now that it's "out there," under the Cokie Rule, the major media must now report it, right?
elleng
(131,100 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)still_one
(92,394 posts)If he moves his lips he's lying
Foamfollower
(1,097 posts)Presidents DECLASSIFY Intelligence when they speak openly and candidly about it.
It's a dumb move, but there's nothing illegal about it.
It's also a direct threat to national security, but a president can declassify whatever the fuck they want to declassify.
Just another reason why people must always keep in mind, elections have consequences. In this case, we have a president who will willfully damage our national security to make himself sound big in a television interview with a dweeb idiot.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)The president can, on his/her own, declassify and simultaneously release information. Doesn't make it right, doesn't mean he should, but he can. And in this one case, Nixon was right: if the president does it, it is not a crime.
triron
(22,020 posts)Voters put him into office???
Well, with help of Russians, fbi, and media.
elmac
(4,642 posts)should demand to see any docs on this now that its declassified.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 posts)The Russians own him. That's why the US and foreign intelligence services are trying to keep information from him.
Botany
(70,581 posts)Can Trumo say anything and it not be about himself or the people he picked
or something he has done?
JudyM
(29,274 posts)Of course, not that he ever thinks straight...