Yesterday, the revelations that President Trump had revealed “top secret” intelligence during Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit were met with blanket denials from the White House. The insistence that it didn’t happen didn’t last long, as President Trump took to Twitter not long thereafter to affirm that he did so.
Trump insisted that because the intelligence had to do with terrorism and airline safety, which is to say the ISIS laptop bomb plot, there were valid “humanitarian reasons” to share that intelligence with Russia to allow them to step up their defenses against an ISIS attack.
Trump went on to point out that as president he has an “absolute right” to share intelligence, which despite the furor the report caused is true. US presidents are allowed to handle classified data as they see fit, and that includes disclosing it to foreign officials.
The whole reason this became an issue is because the nation is question was Russia and many, particularly in the US Congress, are perpetually hostile toward Russia and would oppose any intelligence sharing with them, irrespective of its justification.
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I hope that the Special Prosecutor goes through. For too long, liberals have been claiming they have evidence of Russian collusion with Trump and that investigation is needed. I concur - call in Lynch / Rice / Obama to testify what they know as well UNDER OATH. As well as the Intelligence community who have claimed all along they knew about it.
ReplyDeleteWonderful thing subpoenas. Remarkable how the story of the person in the hot seat under oath suddenly goes "I can't recall' ala Hillary. But we need this exposure to kill the cancer. So the whole world finally gets it.
And Oval Office tapes included. All of us have had the phone message 'your call may be recorded and monitored for quality purposes'. So if you are surprised that these tapes exist, you are smoking too much crack. Of course they exist.
Wonderful thing subpoenas. Remarkable how the story of the person in the hot seat under oath suddenly goes "I can't recall' ala Hillary.
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The real story here is the progs don't want white people (Americans) talking to white people (Russians)...GOD forbid something good could come of it! The rest is just distractionary noise.
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