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PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

his own men reported him....

and now he is a cult hero to destroy the line of cammand and honor as noted by one. when trump act it damages so much.

https://news.yahoo.com/seals-veterans-view-trump-navy-132256687.html

How SEALs and Veterans View the Trump-Navy Tussle Over Gallagher

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-again-accused-mishandling-info-creating-security-threat?cid=eml_mra_20191206

Trump again accused of mishandling info, creating security threat

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The House Intelligence Committee this week released a new report on Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal, which included phone records that pointed to a familiar concern: the president continues to use unsecured telephones. That includes frequent communications with Rudy Giuliani – while the former mayor was abroad – that the Washington Post reported were “vulnerable to monitoring by Russian and other foreign intelligence services.”

The revelations raise the possibility that Moscow was able to learn about aspects of Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate a political rival months before that effort was exposed by a whistleblower report and the impeachment inquiry, officials said. […]

The disclosures provide fresh evidence suggesting that the president continues to defy the security guidance urged by his aides and followed by previous incumbents – a stance that is particularly remarkable given Trump’s attacks on Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign for her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state.

The problem, of course, extends beyond breathtaking hypocrisy. By willfully ignoring security guidance, Trump has created a vulnerability that Russia could exploit to advance its interests over ours.

The Post spoke to John Sipher, former deputy chief of Russia operations at the CIA, who said the Republican president and his lawyer have effectively “given the Russians ammunition they can use in an overt fashion, a covert fashion or in the twisting of information.” He added that it’s so likely that Russia tracked these calls that the Kremlin probably knows more now about those conversations than impeachment investigators.

The same article noted that Trump has “absolutely” created a security issue by using lines vulnerable to interception and blowing off aides who’ve tried to steer the president in more responsible directions.

And in case that weren’t quite enough, the Post reported that after White House officials made “a concerted attempt” in 2017 to have Trump use secure White House lines, the president came to realize this meant officials such as then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly would know to whom Trump was speaking.

The president considered this unacceptable and “reverted to using his cellphone.”

And with that in mind, this seems like a good time to update my entirely subjective rundown of the most egregious examples of Trump mishandling sensitive information and creating security risks.


10. In May 2017, Trump had a chat with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in which the Republican shared information about dispatching two nuclear submarines off the coast of the Korean peninsula. By one account, Pentagon officials were “in shock” over Trump’s willingness to share such information. “We never talk about subs!” three officials told BuzzFeed News, referring to the military’s belief that keeping submarines’ movements secret is key to their mission.

9. In September 2019, during a photo-op at an event along the U.S./Mexico border, the president seemed eager to boast to reporters about detailed technological advancements in border security. It fell to Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the acting head of the Army Corps, to interject, “Sir, there could be some merit in not discussing that.”

8. In July 2019, Trump had an unsecured conversation with U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland, while the ambassador was in a Ukrainian restaurant within earshot of others, in which Trump sought information on Ukraine helping target the president’s domestic political opponents. Larry Pfeiffer, a former senior director of the White House Situation Room and a former chief of staff to the CIA director, said of the call, “The security ramifications are insane.”

7. On a related note, Trump had vulnerable conversations about his Ukraine scheme with Giuliani, creating additional security risks for Russia to exploit.

6. In February 2018, Trump ignored the pleas of many U.S. officials and recklessly declassified information from the so-called “Nunes Memo” in the hopes of advancing a partisan scheme.

5. In February 2017, Trump discussed sensitive details about North Korea’s ballistic missile tests with the prime minister of Japan at a Mar-a-Lago dining area, in view of wealthy civilians/customers.

4. In early October 2019, Trump publicly discussed American nuclear weapons in Turkey, something U.S. officials have traditionally avoided disclosing and/or confirming.

3. In August 2019, Trump published a tweet about a failed Iranian launch, which included a detailed photo. As MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported, it wasn’t long before observers expressed concern about Trump possibly releasing classified material.

2. In October 2019, Trump needlessly blurted out all kinds of tactical and operational details about the al-Baghdadi mission.

1. Just four months into Trump’s presidency, he welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak into the Oval Office – at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin – for a visit that was never fully explained.

It was in this meeting that Trump revealed highly classified information to his Russian guests for no apparent reason. The Washington Post reported at the time, “The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.”

The Wall Street Journal added, “According to one U.S. official, the information shared was highly sensitive and difficult to acquire and was considered extraordinarily valuable.”

This list, incidentally, is not comprehensive. There are other examples.

At this point, I imagine some of the president’s detractors might suggest curtailing his access to intelligence briefings, but that’s probably an unnecessary call: by all accounts, Trump often skips his intelligence briefings anyway.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At every opportunity, Putin's bitch, or the biggest fool ever elected to any office, reveals state secrets.


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If there were a global competition for insincerity, President Trump would have won the equivalent of an Oscar, a gold medal, a Ballon d’Or and a Vince Lombardi Trophy combined. You simply could not be more two-faced; it is not humanly possible. His picture belongs in the dictionary under the very word “hypocrisy.”

Trump, recall, spent much of 2016 leading chants of “Lock her up!” because Hillary Clinton made the mistake of employing a private server for some of her official emails as secretary of state. Trump still routinely refers to the former first lady and secretary of state as “Crooked Hillary” as if she had actually committed a crime. Never mind that the Justice Department decided not to prosecute and that a lengthy State Department investigation, completed during the Trump administration, found “no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.”

And yet, while castigating Clinton for supposedly mishandling classified information, Trump has been engaging in far more egregious examples of the very same sin.

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He began his presidency, in February 2017, by reviewing classified documents and having a highly sensitive discussion about North Korea with the Japanese prime minister not in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) but in front of fellow diners on a packed terrace at Mar-a-Lago.

In May 2017, he revealed top-secret intelligence to the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador during a meeting in the Oval Office, thereby potentially blowing a source of information about the Islamic State. In 2018, he reportedly discussed with wealthy donors at a Manhattan fundraiser the classified details of a battle between U.S. forces and Russian mercenaries in Syria.

In October of this year, Trump revealed details about the raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that, as NBC News noted, “were either highly classified or tactically sensitive, and their disclosure by the president made intelligence and military officials cringe.” And, according to a White House whistleblower, Trump overruled the opposition of security officials to grant top-secret security clearances to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

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But all these security breaches pale by comparison with Trump’s promiscuous use of a cellphone to conduct top-secret conversations. My Post colleagues Paul Sonne, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller report that “Trump has routinely communicated with his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and other individuals speaking on cellphones vulnerable to monitoring by Russian and other foreign intelligence services.”

This shocking security breach became clear from the cellphone records obtained by the House Intelligence Committee during its impeachment investigation. There are numerous calls between Giuliani and a blocked number listed as “-1” that is widely suspected to belong to Individual 1, i.e., the president of the United States. We also know, of course, that Ambassador Gordon Sondland talked with Trump on an unsecure cellphone from the middle of a restaurant in Kyiv.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://news.yahoo.com/very-afraid-admiral-oversaw-bin-144621630.html.



.‘We should be very afraid’: Admiral who oversaw Bin Laden raid hits out at Trump over sacking of intelligence chief


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In a searing op-ed, the former head of US Special Operations Command, who supervised the 2011 Navy Seal raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, has slammed Donald Trump’s reckless attitude towards the intelligence community saying that Americans should be afraid of the president’s actions.

Retired navy admiral William McRaven, writing in The Washington Post about the dismissal of director of national intelligence Joe Maguire, decries the fact that Mr Maguire was apparently ousted simply for doing his job – the dissemination of intelligence to elected officials.

He writes: “As Americans, we should be frightened – deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security – then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.”


Admiral McRaven opens with the famous quote from Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

He lists the good men and women that have come and gone in the Trump administration: Jim Mattis, John Kelly, HR McMaster, Sue Gordon, Dan Coats, and now Joe Maguire, and later mournfully says that “in this administration, good men and women don’t last long”.

Mr Maguire’s extensive career, including 36 years as a Navy Seal, is described in detail by Admiral McRaven who paints a picture of a patriot and a man of integrity.

When caught up in the Ukraine whistleblower case, Mr Maguire told the White House he would testify if asked and would tell the truth – and he did, says Admiral McRaven.

“He earned the respect of the entire intelligence community. They knew a good man was at the helm. A man they could count on, a man who would back them, a man whose integrity was more important than his future employment.”

Former CIA director John Brennan has also sounded the alarm about the Trump administration’s alleged interference in the operations of US national security. Mr Brennan referred to the dismissal of Mr Maguire as “a virtual decapitation of the intelligence community”.



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

your fired if you worked on health issues. trump wants incompetents and whores only need apply and be placed.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

trump said we only have 15 cases and in a few days it will be zero.

amazing he even lied to make political points that the market dropped because of the dem debate. gee it dropped two days before the debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFuTSD37qA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2JgJkPdkM

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ya trump and Pence are so much more qualified in dealing with threats than real people with real degrees in science. Just like the military and intellegence people all do not know what they are doing.

Geee they have not had to have suggar daddy bail them out and squander their trust fund money their entire lives like trump. again to date not one right winger can show trump is not financed by the russians illegally sheltering their money in his activities because he lost all sugar daddy trust fund money.

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-anthony-fauci-speech-controlled-by-trump-coronavirus-2020-2?r=MX&IR=T

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Anthony Fauci is one of the top US experts on infectious diseases.

Now that President Trump has made Vice President Pence the US' coronavirus czar, Fauci has to run interviews by Pence's office for clearance.

Some of Fauci's statements about the virus have been at odds with claims from President Trump.

US public-health experts and politicians have been angry that Fauci appeared to be sidelined. One said his silence "is a threat to public health and safety."

Fauci has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. He's tackled the AIDS, Zika, and Ebola epidemics.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

time to bring this thread back up....
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well guess I am right from 2017 when I started this subject...

Here is another person in the know who is seeing it my way... again trump only hires the best guys right...

right now with trump where he is in right wing polling standing, why would any country in the world give us any critical information any more when republicans support this pedophile criminal rapist trader. The right wingers are a clear and present danger to democracies of the human race.

Come on dumber than a rock right wingers on this forum tell me why any country in the world should ever trust USA with secret information ever again. Rember only right wingers think that the lock that works only from the inside of a bathroom keeps people out, dumb as a turd right wingers. When even top right wingers are that stupid who can ever trust the usa again? and I am serious....

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-former-pentagon-chief-now-sees-security-threat-rcna90027?

Trump’s former Pentagon chief now sees him as a security threat


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Donald Trump's former Defense secretary last year agreed that he's a "threat to democracy." Now, Mark Esper sees his former boss as a security threat, too.





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After Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment was unsealed, current and former national security officials assessed the evidence, found it “devastating,” and wondered aloud just how much damage the former president did to his own country’s national security.

Among the critics is the Republican’s former Defense secretary. Politico reported:

Painting him as a security risk, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday added his voice to those critical of former President Donald Trump for his handling of classified information after his presidency. Esper, who served in Trump’s Cabinet, said: “People have described him as a hoarder when it comes to these type of documents. But clearly, it was unauthorized, illegal and dangerous.”

When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the former Pentagon chief if Trump could ever be trusted again with the nation’s secrets, Esper replied, “Based on his actions, again, if proven true under the indictment by the special counsel, no.”

These concerns are part of a larger pattern. It was last summer when the former Defense secretary, who worked alongside Trump for a year and a half, publicly declared that the former president is unsuited for public office. Esper went on to agree that Trump represents “a threat to democracy,” before concluding that the former president is “unfit for office.”

As best as I can tell, Trump has not yet responded publicly to his former cabinet secretary’s latest criticisms, though he has invested a fair amount of time engaging in a lengthy fight with other former members of his administration.

Indeed, one of the great oddities of the 2024 race for the GOP nomination is that Trump isn’t just concerned about taking on his intra-party rivals, he also has to take on high-profile and high-ranking officials from his White House team who clearly hold him in low regard.

Earlier this month, for example, the Republican lashed out at Kayleigh McEnany, his former White House press secretary. If the message was intended to intimidate former Trump administration officials into submission, it didn’t work: The former president soon faced new criticisms from, among others, former Attorney General Bill Barr, former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Outraged by their insolence, Trump condemned Kelly and released a profane video on Friday, viciously attacking Barr, Bolton, and others he’d put in key positions.

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It was two days later when Barr slammed his former boss again, coinciding with Esper’s latest round of criticisms.

In other words, Trump is dealing simultaneously with his comeback campaign, multiple criminal indictments, the prospect of additional criminal charges, and leading former members of his team airing their contempt for him in public.

It’s amazing in part because there’s no modern precent for anything like this, and in part because it intensifies the challenge for Trump’s followers.

It’s clear that these voters are not going to listen to Democrats. Or scholars. Or judges. Or prosecutors. Or journalists. But perhaps they’d consider trusting the word of people Trump himself put in key positions of authority, and who worked alongside him for years while he was in the White House?




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PostPosted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

trump now getting security briefs... wtf.. please right wingers tell me why?
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