This doesn't address the firings, which bothers me.
It’s obvious that McMaster is getting a lot of negative press in the last eight hours. Somebody’s out to get him.
Susan Rice should not have access to ANY classified materials.
Wrong
CTH trying to be too cute by half by not going with the ‘crowd’
More likely the Treehouse Doofus should look in the mirror.
So? She is no longer in that job and should not have access to any classified material. What is wrong with these people?
I think she’s using the old “I can defend myself, but, oopsie, I might give away national secrets” defense.
Call her to testify.
Call her bluff.
Play stupid games and you win stupid prizes.
The letter authorizes Rice to access classified information that she “received” while in office. For all we know, this included information about the incoming Trump administration, including unmasked information that she or others requested. Given (a) that the unmasking is under investigation by Congress (and should be by Mueller but who knows if it really is); (b) widespread leaks of classified information that was created while Susan Rice was in office (such as the Flynn transcripts); and (c) allegations against the Obama administration of using intelligence for political purposes... this is obviously very, very troubling. This article disputing the “angle / narrative” is a complete fail.
The real test is how long this letter will float in the news cycle.
Not directed to you, but a general question.
Wasn’t it Trump who appointed Gen McMaster? It seems to be, besides Reince, many of the appointments have been solid.
I would have to believe whoever is advising the President on something as important as the NSC staff, would be in the loop.
That’s just my thinking.
Additionally, all of this McMaster talk piles on the “WH is chaos” theme, spread by the MSM.
EFF YOU LYING B*TCH SUSAN RICE. She doesn't even qualify for a 'CONFIDENTIAL' clearance let alone 'SECRET'.
> “In the letter (included below) National Security Advisor HR McMaster simply gave former NSA Susan Rice permission to continue accessing historic classified intelligence that she created and received while Mrs. Rice was President Obama’s NSA lead.”
No sale Sundance. You struck out here. He should not be giving her one iota of access while she is a suspect in an illegal espionage case against the Trump campaign.
The telltale sign of McMasters’s duplicity is the euphoria exhibited upon his appointment by the likes of Bill Kristol, Lindsey Graham, and others of the same noxious smell.
You read a similar argument here earlier today, posted by me.
Things are not always the way FReepers see them. And Trump and Team are not the idiots many seem to think.
Sundance, Bannon, Sarah Carter are all supposed to be conservatives...
I for one do not know what to believe...there has to be some mutual exclusivity in this, so not all things can be true at once.
It’s the Never-Trumpers of the Levin/Cruz cabal that have been stirring this crap.
Saying McMasters is “purging” all the Trump loyalists.
And he did purge one that I know of, the guy who wears the tinfoil hat.
I’ve about given up on Sundance. Lately,he seems to be twisting himself into a pretzel trying to rationalize his worldview. He seems isolated, has no connections that I can tell, and seems to draw specious conclusions in almost everything he’s writing about these days.
Wasn't she previously, personally and specifically involved in one heck of a lot of unmasking? Does that qualify as "historic intel work product she previously, personally and specifically was involved in?"
Susan Rice told McMaster to fire all the Trumpsters including Steve Miller, and so he is doing so. Is Miller next? Will Acosta bray like a jackass?
McMaster has to go. He hates Israel. Is an Islamophile and is hiring all Globalists and retaining Obama’s people
“National Security Advisor HR McMaster simply gave former NSA Susan Rice permission to continue accessing historic classified intelligence that she created and received while Mrs. Rice was President Obama’s NSA lead”
Why? She has zero need to retain any of that product. Think someone in the USN nuclear submarines gets to retain and access the things they worked on after they separate? McMaster is an establishment globalist shill, he wants a wider war in Syria to remove Assad. He wants increased tension with Russia. He is against a border wall. He is pro-islam and doesn’t like the term radical Islamic terror.
He kept on numerous Obama staffers.
Ergo, he is a POS and needs to be fired. He is NOT MAGA.