Trump acknowledging there are real leaks might be the most truthful thing he's ever called out against the media.
Trump acknowledging there are real leaks might be the most truthful thing he's ever called out against the media.
Forever Fredi
cajunrevenge (02-15-2017), Runnin (02-14-2017)
Is disliking Flynn, the administration, the spy-leakers, and the press an option? If so, count me down.
AerchAngel (02-15-2017)
Julio3000 (02-14-2017)
Julio3000 (02-14-2017)
Julio3000 (02-14-2017)
goldfly (02-14-2017), Hawk (02-14-2017), Jaw (02-15-2017), The Chosen One (02-14-2017)
Comparing Snowden and Manning to Flynn is a terrible analogy because they weren't on the President's staff and if you put the arrow in the other direction, their actions could not be traced to any one actor within the Bush and Obama administrations but were aimed at an overall policy. Clapper is a good analogy because he was. If there's anything odd here, it's that many who decried Snowden's antics seem agnostic on Flynn's.
goldfly (02-15-2017)
Here's the next drip.
Same story, uses some different qualifiers (i.e. "constant communication). Names Flynn specifically in addition to Manafort.
Speaking of Manafort, he gets the silver medal for unintentionally funny statements about serious matters (gold being "inadvertently briefed with incomplete information").
Mr. Manafort, who has not been charged with any crimes, dismissed the officials’ accounts in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “This is absurd,” he said. “I have no idea what this is referring to. I have never knowingly spoken to Russian intelligence officers, and I have never been involved with anything to do with the Russian government or the Putin administration or any other issues under investigation today.”
He added, “It’s not like these people wear badges that say, ‘I’m a Russian intelligence officer.’”
I mean, the last part is the laugh line, but it's also sort of grim-funny to see Paul Manafort say that he's "never been involved with anything to do with the Russian government or the Putin administration."
Jaw (02-15-2017)
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
He's not comparing Snowden and Manning to Flynn beyond the fact that all three cases involved illegally leaked intel. The public has chosen to consider the legality of each leak at whatever length they find valuable to a political cause.
If anything, the information leaked about Flynn is particularly disturbing precisely because it targets one individual.
Last edited by Hawk; 02-15-2017 at 12:50 AM.
A part of me can't help but be conspiratorial. Is this a play by Bannon to expose the intelligence community as a shadow state? Bannon seeks to break the system.
AerchAngel (02-15-2017)