What good is having a secret if you can’t tell people about it?
This is the dilemma President Trump has found himself in many times. Often he just blurts (or tweets) the secret out, as he did recently when he tweeted a probably classified image of an Iranian launch facility, enabling the Iranians (and everyone else) to learn more about American surveillance capabilities.
And according to this extraordinary CNN story, from early in his presidency, the intelligence community felt it had no choice but to make decisions based on the likelihood that the person with almost unlimited access to American secrets probably couldn’t keep his mouth shut — especially when it came to Russia:
In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.
The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.
In all the ongoing horrors emanating from the White House, you may have forgotten the story of that Oval Office meeting, but it was truly shocking. It concerned a spy Israel had succeeded in placing near the center of the Islamic State, a piece of information so sensitive that we hadn’t even shared it with many of our key allies. And then Trump, in an apparent attempt to impress the Russians, just told them all about it.
Trump fired Bolton for showing that the President is an even bigger bonehead than Bolton is.
Let's have the Taliban come to Camp David for a pleasant little chat indeed.
Kim Jon Un said... I just LOVE your president. I play him like a violin.
Netanyahu said... So do I.
Several dictators throughout the world in chorus said... So do we.
Trump said... I look into their eyes and see their souls.
The Taliban said... We almost made it to Camp David!
Putin said... I especially love him. He lets himself do my bidding. (But I still hold on to that golden stream video and several of his most nefarious business deals just in case.)
Putin said... He says, Did you hack our election? and I say No and he says Thank You. (Knee slapping funny.)
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Maybe he is joining Netflix board as the token nonliberal.
Trump is a threat to national security.
What good is having a secret if you can’t tell people about it?
This is the dilemma President Trump has found himself in many times. Often he just blurts (or tweets) the secret out, as he did recently when he tweeted a probably classified image of an Iranian launch facility, enabling the Iranians (and everyone else) to learn more about American surveillance capabilities.
And according to this extraordinary CNN story, from early in his presidency, the intelligence community felt it had no choice but to make decisions based on the likelihood that the person with almost unlimited access to American secrets probably couldn’t keep his mouth shut — especially when it came to Russia:
In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.
The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.
In all the ongoing horrors emanating from the White House, you may have forgotten the story of that Oval Office meeting, but it was truly shocking. It concerned a spy Israel had succeeded in placing near the center of the Islamic State, a piece of information so sensitive that we hadn’t even shared it with many of our key allies. And then Trump, in an apparent attempt to impress the Russians, just told them all about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/09/shocking-cnn-scoop-confirms-officials-are-defending-our-country-trump/
"caliphate4vrSeptember 10, 2019 at 11:19 AM
Roger you are the one detached. Your grasp on realty gets more tenuous by the day."
It has gotten worse since being evicted for failure to pay.
Lost Years
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Median household income was $61,372 Jan. 2017"
President Prosperous
"Real median household income $63,179"
So Bolton offered to resign and Trump said you're not going to get the chance. You're fired.
Trump is hoping to find someone more ignorant than himself to replace Bolton.
Mission Impossible!
Trump fired Bolton for showing that the President is an even bigger bonehead than Bolton is.
Let's have the Taliban come to Camp David for a pleasant little chat indeed.
Kim Jon Un said...
I just LOVE your president. I play him like a violin.
Netanyahu said...
So do I.
Several dictators throughout the world in chorus said...
So do we.
Trump said...
I look into their eyes and see their souls.
The Taliban said...
We almost made it to Camp David!
Putin said...
I especially love him. He lets himself do my bidding.
(But I still hold on to that golden stream video and several of his most nefarious business deals just in case.)
Putin said...
He says, Did you hack our election? and I say No and he says Thank You. (Knee slapping funny.)
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