Trump “revealed more information to Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies”

a reply to: Kali74

It's a shame that ransom ware didn't target the media establishment.

Since they are nothing but a bunch of political hacks to begin with.

a reply to: MOMof3

I think everyone in the world has a wandering fear of terror attacks. The way we deal with that as nation however is to have intelligence gathering agencies and while I'm no fan of government in general and certainly not the erosion of privacy it doesn't mean we should just start burning all the norms to the ground. Trump is doing nothing but destabilizing this country and our allies and our efforts to defeat terrorists.

a reply to: neo96

This is what that translates to:

The media doesn't say what I want to hear so it's fake and malicious.

a reply to: Kali74

To be fair the intelligence community to begin with weren't very helpful sharing information with each other in regards to the lead up to 9/11

a reply to: Kali74

I think someone means.

Trump doesn't say what I want to hear so he's a Russian spy.

a reply to: auroraaus

One of the major things that Americans agreed on in the wake of the 9/11 attacks was that our intelligence agencies had to start sharing info with each other. I still agree with that.

i was curious as to what was going to happen once trump entered office after declaring war on both parties. now i know.

Ok, so how did the Washington post get this information and also how did their contact know what was discussed there. Were they recording the conversation without our government's approval? I call into the equation whether the Washington post is actually more reliable of a source than the White house administration on this subject. If they found someone to say this was classified, reveal their source to the FBI or CIA, that person needs to be put into jail for leaving out classified information of a conversation our president had.

This is all bull crap. I think our government should pass laws that stop the media from twisting the information to make it look like it is something it is not. That is dangerous, I was against Fox doing that before and I am against the Washington Post doing it now. Sure we need to get to the bottom of this, first of all if the president says something it is automatically declassified. That is the way it works. Now the Washington Post needs to loose their license for blasphemy of the office of the president. No matter what president was in office I would be saying the same thing on this, it is not a Trump issue. If Hillary was president, and she told a Russian ambassador something like this I would be sticking up for her too. Of course Hillary would rather bomb Russia and start WW111 than even talk to the Russian Ambassador.

I think there should be a congressional investigation into this and if it is found that the Washington Post acted improperly with releasing this information they should lose their right to post any news or print their paper. Our government needs to have the right to block radical press from disturbing the people of our country. ATS is not a threat, we discuss things here and debunk a lot of stuff, it is not comparable to what the Washington Post is doing.

a reply to: neo96

Trump obviously has a man crush on all things Russian or at least autocratic, which is fine for a private citizen but he's the fking President of the United States.

a reply to: Kali74

Well Trump didn't run around telling them how flexible he was or pushed fake props with a button, and running around shouting peregruzka !!!

Come up with one legitimate criticism for onces.

a reply to: Kali74

meanwhile the stock market is doing great, housing market is doing better then it has in years, illegal immigration is down, there has not been one terrorist related attack in the states since he took office, not sure about you but to me other then the BS being spewed by the media, things are looking up.

a reply to: neo96

Again, pay attention now...

No one is saying Trump did anything illegal. We know he can declassify anything that he wants to. The issue is that he apparently did...

To Russia.

a reply to: TheScale

Four months in... wow. Most of that is left over from Obama policies.

a reply to: Kali74

Someone does need to pay attention.

Especially to the Wa Po and the comments below.

twitter.com...

originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: neo96

Again, pay attention now...

No one is saying Trump did anything illegal. We know he can declassify anything that he wants to. The issue is that he apparently did...

To Russia.

im curious, but why is it youd like to keep the ole cold war hatred going with russia? what good do u feel that will bring? i mean russia does no more then other countries we are generally friendly with. on the flip side, if we escalate things with russia further we go back towards our cold war era standings, MAD becomes a very real thing, the populace stays in fear, the industrial military complex continues to get increased funding, and the potential for millions of lives to be lost at any moment exists at a higher rate.

originally posted by: Majic
Open Secrets

The 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.

Unless this claim is false, the people who revealed those details to the Washington Post did so in violation of federal law, are felons, and belong in prison.

The information ceased to be classified the moment Trump shared the previously code-word sensitive information with the Russians.

So either Trump has committed full on Treason or the folks that leaked to Wapo were not leaking any classified information.

Besides...Trump burnt the operation/asset already. That intelligence source is gone for the USA, and that intelligence partner will never again share highly sensitive intelligence with the USA as long as Trump is President. It is too dangerous and he cant be trusted.

originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: TheScale

Four months in... wow. Most of that is left over from Obama policies.

oh so the holdovers are obamas achievements now. yet when he was in office all the problems were bushes fault. i find that logic extremely laughable.

a reply to: neo96

Paying attention to opinions on facts vs the actual facts is why you'll never possess the ability to think critically.

originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: TheScale

Four months in... wow. Most of that is left over from Obama policies.

Do you mean like Boston,Fort Hood,San Bernadino,Orlando, Iraq, and Syria being turned in to cluster effs.

The market was at 18000 when he left(he doesn't pay attention to such trivial things).

The housing market still sucked by the way.

And thanks to Trump haters shouting 24/7 about how he hates illegals lot of stopped, and just left.

So no.

That isn't 'left over Obama policies'.