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Either the WaPo story is true and/or some senior WH official is going to jail for leaking secrets, the WaPo article has them verifying the details with Intel community and being asked not to reveal those details, unless WaPo straight out lied about verifying the details.

Edit: looks like Breitbart went with the Intel community leaking the secrets to make Trump looks bad angle.

05-15-2017 , 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Our House

How do you contain the damage for fake news that's going to come out a week later? If this part of the WaPo story is true:

...then McMaster and the rest of them have to be lying, right?

There's even the name of the guy who called the CIA and NSA immediately afterward to get the info scrubbed from transcripts with the exception of a few. Yes, they're lying or craftily misleading.

edit:

Quote:

Thomas P. Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, placed calls to the directors of the CIA and the NSA, the services most directly involved in the intelligence-sharing arrangement with the partner.

One of Bossert’s subordinates also called for the problematic portion of Trump’s discussion to be stricken from internal memos and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients, efforts to prevent sensitive details from being disseminated further or leaked.

05-15-2017 , 08:01 PM

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Some despicable people that go to bat for trump on telly.

McEnaney an absolute ****bag but this Jeffery Lord ****er has a face I'd never tire of kicking. Lying deflecting bastards, shouldn't be allowed to spread their lies and propaganda.

Obviously cnn pay them but does anyone connected to Trump pay or is this for free/ideological reasons?

05-15-2017 , 08:03 PM

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SuperUberBob

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Dude,

They flat-out blew the cover of some kind of operation going on in ISIS territory. Like, someone might get beheaded over this.

I'm holding back judgment for now because it's a pretty serious allegation whose basis is focused on "anonymous sources". Not the greatest proof available. I mean we're talking treason if it's true.

Let's see what happens. Don't want to snap at everything. But this is pretty bad if true.

Last edited by SuperUberBob; 05-15-2017 at 08:04 PM. Reason: well not technically treason since POTUS can legally do this

05-15-2017 , 08:04 PM

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yeah the reporter's post-denial interview seems pretty clear on what actually happened on the whitehouse is just trying to spin it

05-15-2017 , 08:05 PM

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If only someone had warned us during the election that Trump was a puppet of Vladimir Putin.

05-15-2017 , 08:06 PM

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@SUB: How is it treason? He's probably legally allowed to do it as President, and even if not, he was clearly just being a tard, not actually deliberately funneling info to Russians.

05-15-2017 , 08:08 PM

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SuperUberBob

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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

@SUB: How is it treason? He's probably legally allowed to do it, and even if not, he was clearly just being a tard, not actually deliberately funneling info to Russians.

Beat ya to it on the edit.

05-15-2017 , 08:08 PM

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05-15-2017 , 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

america is a global laughing stock

Speaking as the rest of the world, we're not really laughing. The reaction currently is more like how you would react if you found out a relative had been hospitalized for psychosis brought on by meth overuse.

05-15-2017 , 08:17 PM

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oh im laughing at this one for sure, lot more than anything else thats happened in the usa in the last 4 months.

Cant wait for press

05-15-2017 , 08:17 PM

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SuperUberBob

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I've been travelling about for quite a while and I've come across more concern, curiosity, incredulity and fear than laughter.

05-15-2017 , 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

I'm holding back judgment for now because it's a pretty serious allegation whose basis is focused on "anonymous sources". Not the greatest proof available. I mean we're talking treason if it's true.

It's a mortal lock that WaPo isn't dropping a bombshell like this without at least three people confirming the information. I'm guessing that the senior officials who confirmed it are pretty confident that Bannon won't be able to figure out who they are.

05-15-2017 , 08:22 PM

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bananas

05-15-2017 , 08:23 PM

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Good thread by Tapper

05-15-2017 , 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by dlk9s

NATO officials will turn off the lights in preparation for Trump's arrival and require everyone in attendance to leave their phones, watches, and other electronic devices outside.

05-15-2017 , 08:26 PM

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UPDATE: Fox News exclusive! Airing only on Fox News right now!

Spoiler:

05-15-2017 , 08:27 PM

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this cannot go on for 4 years, there's just no ****ing way

05-15-2017 , 08:28 PM

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This is getting beyond surreal. Literally everyday there is something that would be a once per presidency controversy for any other president. EVERY SINGLE DAY.

05-15-2017 , 08:31 PM

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UPDATE: Fox News exclusive! Airing only on Fox News right now!

Spoiler:

On their website there is a headline "SNL fat shames Sarah Huckabee"

05-15-2017 , 08:32 PM

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05-15-2017 , 08:33 PM

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It's incredible to me how shameless Fox is about being a propaganda network. Like, on CNN a short time ago, Alan Dershowitz (!) called this the most serious charge ever leveled against a sitting President. Fox isn't even covering the story. What an insane divergence in realities.

05-15-2017 , 08:36 PM

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Reading between the lines we have an ally that has a mole in the Islamic State, probably in their foreign terrorism operations unit and Trump wanted to brag that the US gets the best intel sh*t to the Russians and went into some detail. His aids realize that Trump should have shut up and alerted the Intel agencies that the mole might have been burned or some other kind of damage might happen.