Interesting interpretation of “overlooked.”
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The other thing is, there are PROCESSES for declassifying information, which other administrations have, yes, bothered to go through at times. It wasn’t simply barking out currently classified info in a boastful manner during an oval office meeting with the Russians and Russian state press. We are SO beyond WTF territory…
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You saw the revised protocol for NATO meetings, in which explanations to Trump are to be shortened to four minutes or less, on account of the attention-span problem?
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Needs moar Sarcasm font.
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I sincerely hope that was Poe’s Law in action…
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Not Poe! No Poe! No, you’re the Poe!!!
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Trump revealed intelligence? That’s unpossible!
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Trump’s intelligence secrets, revealed!
“First thing I do every day? I read The National Enquirer. I consider myself to have an enquiring mind, and I figure, hey, I want to know!”
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I didn’t think I would have to repost this so soon
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Great care was taken to make sure that Ambassador Kislyak looked his absolute best in this photo. Skin tones for the other two were collateral damage. Curiously, they missed the fact that his chin is about to eat Trump’s lapel flag . . . or did they?
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The best part about this latest fake news is that even the NYTimes is disputing whether an actual leak or disclosure took place in light of the President’s ability to declassify anything he wants to. Nice try WaPo! Lol!
I recently inquired on this thread (Trump admits firing Comey to impede investigation into “Trump and Russia”) whether or not the Comey firing was grave enough to force action. Due to my interactions on that thread, I feel compelled to explain that I understand how polling affects Republicans’ and others’ decision making, that I understand how the craven slavery to wealth/status is inversely proportionate to integrity, etc. That’s not what I was asking there nor is it what I want to know now.
Perspective is very difficult in uncharted territory. It’s no easy thing to answer, “How grave is this situation?” when “this situation” is a shitshow the likes of which we maybe haven’t seen since Nixon and even that’s debatable. My husband is old enough to remember the Watergate hearings – I am not. I know the Watergate comparisons are rampant, but seriously, think about the last time the intelligence community and the press enjoyed a foxhole romance.
So, I’m not even sure we are in unprecedented land, but when presidential scholars and Harvard constitutional law professors and people way, way, WAY smarter than me start sounding alarm bells, I really begin to worry because it doesn’t seem like the usual outrage.
For example, I spent more time than I’d like to admit researching whether The New York Times had ever before issued an open letter such as this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/deputy-attorney-general-open-letter.html.
I don’t know, I just don’t know. Well, that’s not exactly true. I do know one unprecedented fact: I’m worried in a way I’ve not known until today.
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So who’s really prez? I’m hoping The Dude.
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I’m not sure who all reported on aides saying that they can’t provide Trump with multiple choices, because that just confuses him, so they present the plan they favor and try to convince him of it. But this is apparently part of how they convince him:
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That’s got to be right. I can just imagine his next meeting…
“Hey, guys, wanna know the nuclear codes? I can tell you that because I’m the president. I can declassify anything!”
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Hmm, I don’t know. I’ve never actually seen the Big Lebowski (I know, I know, here’s my geek card, take it). I’m hoping Elizabeth Warren, but it’s probably Cruz.
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