Random Politics & Religion #23 (Fake News)

Breaking news on CNN:

So, tell us then Kara, what sort of oath violation did Trump make?

What was the classified information that Trump unclassified to the Russians? Even the WP couldn't say what it was, even though their "sources" stated that Trump shared intelligence secrets but didn't say what.

Even what the WP did say, doesn't pass the smell test.

The Washington Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardize important intelligence capabilities.

The smell test? Your personal smell test? Well that means so much. Did you read the articles you quoted?
They are withholding the classified intel because the WH asked them to, citing national security. So the Post went to the WH, told them they had the story and asked them for a comment, and the WH asked them not to divulge the actual classified info. And all of the denials, including the ones today, didn't bother to deny that Trump named dropped the threats. They have only managed to say that Trump didn't know where the information originated, because that somehow matters. It was smart to run McMaster out there instead of Spicer, but that was not a good press briefing.

And now Reuters has backed up the story. The only thing the WH can do is give the transcript to the Senate, which they are already asking for.

Obama Ordered The U.S. Intelligence Community To Share Intel With Cuba

Just a month before the 2016 election, President Barack Obama signed a policy directive ordering the U.S. intelligence community to share sensitive U.S. intelligence with Cuba’s communist government, despite the fact that one of the top U.S. intelligence official had branded Cuba as one of America’s biggest espionage threats. The presidential policy directive, which was issued as part of the Obama administration’s efforts to normalize U.S. relations with the Castro regime, required the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to “exchange information on mutual threats with Cuban counterparts.”

“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) will support broader United States Government efforts to normalize relations with Cuba, with Intelligence Community elements working to find opportunities for engagement on areas of common interest through which we could exchange information on mutual threats with Cuban counterparts,” the Obama directive stated.

The Obama administration put some flesh on the bones of the October 2016 directive by signing a January 2017 law enforcement agreement with Cuba officially committing the U.S. to sharing sensitive intelligence with the island nation’s communist regime.

“The memorandum signed Monday commits the U.S. and Cuba to sharing information, carrying out joint investigations and possibly stationing law-enforcement officials in each other’s countries,” the Associated Press (AP) reported just days before Obama left office. The AP report characterized the agreement as a “pledge to share intelligence with Cuban state security.”

USA Today noted that Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, was physically present at the signing ceremony for the U.S.-Cuba intelligence-sharing agreement on January 16, 2017.

While the Obama administration’s plan to share U.S. intelligence with Cuban spies was immediately opposed by a handful of Republican members of Congress, the intel sharing agreement received scant attention from most mainstream U.S. media sources.

In its primary report announcing the initial Obama administration policy directive last October, for example, the New York Times did not even mention the controversial intelligence-sharing agreement with Castro’s government. That report ran on the front page of the newspaper the morning after the Obama directive was issued.

Several lawmakers noted at the time that the intelligence-sharing deal with Cuba could result in the communist regime sending U.S. intelligence to Iran.

James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, testified to Congress just months before Obama inked his deal with Cuba that the Castro regime represented one of the top global espionage threats against the U.S.

“Targeting and collection of US political, military, economic, and technical information by foreign intelligence services continues unabated,” Clapper said in prepared remarks before the Senate Armed Services Committee in February of 2016. “Russia and China pose the greatest threat, followed by Iran and Cuba on a lesser scale.”

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Cuban-American member of Congress, characterized the Obama administration’s deal with Cuba as “reckless, dangerous, and contrary to U.S. national security interests.”

And you are going to attack it because feels. So far, those attacks are completely empty. Trump shared intel he shouldn't have with the Russians, and the best defense they can come up with is..he didn't know where the information came from. I mean, why does that even matter? He still shared the intel.

Tell that to Flynn, Manafont, and Page.

Sec. 1.2 Classification Authority.

(a) Top Secret. The authority to classify information originally as
Top Secret may be exercised only by:

(1) the President; (2) agency heads and officials designated by the
President in the Federal Register; and (3)

Meh mods help me out with that edit.

Vic's lost it. Or he is audition to be a WP writer.

Either way, he's making ***up again.

What did I make up?

Democrats clearly had him killed because of it.

Seems that I grossly overestimated your capacity for satire.

You heard it here folks:

Pleebo thinks that death of a staffer is satire.

This is dumb.

Everything.

Sure, I did say that the media is attacking Trump based on feels alone. That part is obvious.

The rest...well....

Here's the thing: Having me say all that is pretty much what the media has been playing all along. The only difference is that you didn't use "anonymous sources" as your screen for making ***up.

Terrorism and aviation security is not classified information....

I can't counter somebody else's reason with my own, so I'm going to pretend knowledge over something that obviously will be proven wrong.

Or it has to do with how Nausi goes crazy when people talk about Russia and how there is no evidence because it would have been leaked already, but yeah democrats clearly killed that guy.

Or it has to do with how Nausi goes crazy when people talk about Russia and how there is no evidence because it would have been leaked already, but yeah democrats clearly killed that guy.

You don't think the police are investigating a murder?

There, was that so hard to admit to?

Lol, you haven't presented any reasoning at all. You don't like the media, well boo hoo. The WH isn't even denying Trump shared the intel. They have gone to great lengths to deny Trump shared the source of the intel, because he didn't know it, but they don't deny he passed along intel that he shouldn't have.

But now we all the know sources nation of origin.

Lol, you haven't presented any reasoning at all. You don't like the media, well boo hoo. The WH isn't even denying Trump shared the intel. They have gone to great lengths to deny Trump shared the source of the intel, because he didn't know it, but they don't deny he passed along intel that he shouldn't have.