old salt wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:49 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:34 pm
old salt wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:27 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:25 pm
old salt wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:17 pm
a fan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:56 pm
old salt wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:47 pm
The problem is that Trump says so many stupid, embarrassing things???
So, is that what is deserving of protection as deserving compartmentalized protection?
You do realize that's an abuse of the classification system, right?
Only in the eyes of leakers who can't get their hands on what they want to leak to undermine their CinC
& to promote their own personal policy agenda.
Shut up and serve our leader.
Loyalty first, country second. That's your attitude, and that's fine.
Many here don't agree. This isn't the military, and the President is supposed to be limited in power.
Some toning it down.
POTUS is the ultimate classification authority. If he chooses to classify his phcon transcripts TS/SCI to safeguard them from leaking, that's his call & totally appropriate. Based on the record, it appears to have been necessary & effective.
This phcon had to be declassified for release & it is not flattering to EU leaders, which impacts Zelesky more critically than Trump.
It doesn't bother me at all that Trump asked Zelesky to investigate what US citizens did in Ukraine & co-operate with our DoJ, as our treaty agreement calls for. The govt of Ukraine helped Mueller nail Manafort & Gates.
Again, your comments are transparent.
I've made no secret of my contempt for leakers of classified matl.
Yup, and your contempt for whistle blowers who follow the rules.
Remember, most of the illegal leaks have come from the cess pool Trump gathered around him, jockeying for power.
This is the first WB I've questioned, unless you consider Snowden & Manning to be WBs.
The leaking cess pool is full of careerists who were in govt service before Trump & plan to outlast him.
I don't consider Snowden or Manning to be legal WB's.
Snowden was certainly a WB on principle, but did not follow the legal process...of course, if there really are folks that believe a legal WB is a 'spy' or a 'traitor' and should be executed if we are 'smart' then it's painfully understandable why, as in Snowden's case, someone would flee possible such retribution. In Snowden's case, he asked two experienced reporters to help sift through the materials to determine what should be disclosed in the public interest and what should be held back for national security. I think he did not have the intent to do damage to the US. But that doesn't excuse his choice of how to do so...unless this event proves he was right to run.
Yes, there are lots of professionals still left. That's not the cess pool.
Most of the leaking, apparently, out of the leakiest White House in history, has been those brought in by Trump, in-fighting.