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[quote][URL="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash"]#[B]BREAKING[/B][/URL] Trump to give speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia: White House[/quote]
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[QUOTE=wombatman;459117]I dunno -- it's hilarious (in a comedic tragedy sort of way) that the classified information was spilled because Trump was bragging about how he had the best intelligence gathering.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38846022]Jack Barsky[/url], former KGB "sleeper agent," commented as follows on MSNBC last night:

"I have never seen anything like this in my life. It plays out like a cartoon, but this cartoon ain't funny."

From the [url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.378557dd2929]Washington Post story[/url]:[quote]After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.[/quote]

Also, General McMaster said in a non-denial denial after the story broke that "sources and methods were not discussed." The Washington Post story never claimed that they had been. Rather, the story was that Trump gave enough details (such as the city where the ISIS plot was detected) that Russia would likely be able to determine what country had developed the intel originally*; also, given the nature of the plot (apparently to get a bomb concealed in a laptop onto a commercial airliner), the plotters will know their plan is compromised, and could find and plug their leak. And, perhaps, change their [i]modus operandi[/i].

*They won't have to. As first reported in [url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html?_r=0]The New York Times[/url], and is now all over creation, Israel was the original source. And Jerusalem, Israel is on the itinerary of The Donald's upcoming trip. Right after Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;459159]And Jerusalem, Israel is on the itinerary of The Donald's upcoming trip. Right after Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[/QUOTE]

This is a bit like watching a train wreck, in slow motion, in real time.

The world is supposed to trust the United States of America for it's stability.

But for some reason we find some difficulty doing so.

Speaking about slow motion train wrecks we could use more detailed timestamps for after action reports and forensics. Today the New York Times is reporting that Trump asked Comey to shut down the Flynn investigation the day after Flynn was fired.
[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html"]Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation[/URL]
[QUOTE]WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.

“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.

The existence of Mr. Trump’s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.

Mr. Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr. Flynn resigned, according to two people who read the memo. The memo was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president’s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation. An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;459161]Today the New York Times is reporting that Trump asked Comey to shut down the Flynn investigation the day after Flynn was fired.
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You guys hired (read: elected) this twit.

At least the Canadian Prime Minister has good hair.

This latest revelation about FBI interference is of course already denied by the ever less credible White House.

The world is a massive flight recorder for the fledgling USS Don Cheeto. Too bad flight recorders have to participate in the crash.

[QUOTE=only_human;459166]Too bad flight recorders have to participate in the crash.[/QUOTE]

But, the flight recorders (also known as the "Black Boxes" even though they are red) are designed to survive such crashes.

May we live in interesting times.

[QUOTE=only_human;459161]Speaking about slow motion train wrecks we could use more detailed timestamps for after action reports and forensics. Today the New York Times is reporting that Trump asked Comey to shut down the Flynn investigation the day after Flynn was fired.
[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html"]Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation[/URL][/QUOTE]
On 11 May 2017, at 6:59 PM, @matthewamiller (Matthew Miller, former Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice) tweeted: [quote]One thing I learned at DOJ about Comey: he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he deems something inappropriate happened. Stay tuned.[/quote]

On 12 May 2017, at 5:26 AM, @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump) tweeted:[quote]James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press![/quote]

Anyone here ever read [u]QB VII[/u] by Leon Uris? First thing I thought of when I saw Trump's tweet was, "[i]He[/i] better hope [i]Comey[/i] didn't make his [i]own[/i] recordings!" Perhaps he didn't, but what he [i]did[/i] do sounds good enough...

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;459189]On 11 May 2017, at 6:59 PM, @matthewamiller (Matthew Miller, former Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice) tweeted:

On 12 May 2017, at 5:26 AM, @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump) tweeted:

Anyone here ever read [u]QB VII[/u] by Leon Uris? First thing I thought of when I saw Trump's tweet was, "[i]He[/i] better hope [i]Comey[/i] didn't make his [i]own[/i] recordings!" Perhaps he didn't, but what he [i]did[/i] do sounds good enough...[/QUOTE]
I didn't read that but the exchange I'm reminded of is in [I]The Princess Bride[/I]:
[url]http://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/princess-bride-the/quote_30414.html[/url]
[QUOTE]Inigo Montoya: You are wonderful!
Man in Black: Thank you. I've worked hard to become so.
Inigo Montoya: I admit it. You are better than I am.
Man in Black: Then why are you smiling?
Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don't know.
Man in Black: And what is that?
Inigo Montoya: I am not left-handed! [switches to fighting with his right hand]
[The two continue to fight, until the Man in Black is backed against the cliff edge]
Man in Black: You're amazing!
Inigo Montoya: I ought to be, after twenty years.
Man in Black: There's something I ought to tell you.
Inigo Montoya: Tell me.
Man in Black: I'm not left-handed either. [switches his sword to his right hand][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;459189]On 11 May 2017, at 6:59 PM, @matthewamiller (Matthew Miller, former Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice) tweeted:

On 12 May 2017, at 5:26 AM, @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump) tweeted:[/QUOTE]

:popcorn: