Posted on 09/30/2016 5:40:17 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Obama Admin Leaks Details of Trump’s Classified Intel Briefing to Influence Election
Kristinn Taylor Sep 29th, 2016 11:27 pm 190 Comments trump-military
The Obama administration leaked details of a national security intelligence briefing given to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in an attack on him relayed by Time magazine published Thursday.
Ironically in the Time article with the title, “How Russia Wants to Undermine the U.S. Election,” the Obama administration is trying to undermine the U.S. election by leaking information from Trump’s classified briefing to hurt him with the electorate.
All of which makes Donald Trump’s repeated insertion of himself into the U.S.-Russia story all the more startling. Trump has praised Putin during the campaign, and at the first presidential debate, on Sept. 26, he said it wasn’t clear the Russians were behind the DNC hack. But the U.S. intelligence community has “high confidence” that Russian intelligence services were in fact responsible, multiple intelligence and national security officials tell TIME. Trump was informed of that assessment during a recent classified intelligence briefing, a U.S. official familiar with the matter tells TIME. “I do not comment on information I receive in intelligence briefings, however, nobody knows with definitive certainty that this was in fact Russia,” Trump told TIME in a statement. “It may be, but it may also be China, another country or individual.”
For some reason this never matters during Republican administrations. Pentagon Papers leaker was a hero. Nixon audiotapes big issue was what was on them.
> But the U.S. intelligence community has “high confidence” that Russian intelligence services were in fact responsible, multiple intelligence and national security officials tell TIME.
That’s modern “journalism” for ya - hanging the premise of the entire article on a dubious assertion from anonymous sources.
This example of rabid illogic once again illustrates my suspicion that liberal brains have wires crossed that cause them to short-circuit.
Imagine an Executive heading the controlling authority of the entire US government complex conspiring to “leak” out classified information into the ether all just to discredit a political opponent to make people think the opponent is a blabbermouth.
There are many words to describe this “Executive.” Half black, half white. Muslim. Socialist despot. Tyrant. A plethora of epithets, really. AMERICAN is one thing wholly inappropriate.
Tiger claws,
I don’t recall any other time when the current lame-duck president publicly undermined the nominee of the opposite party.
Has there been instances like this in the past?
0 is pond scum for blabbing about security briefings given to the nominee...
That’s modern “journalism” for ya - hanging the premise of the entire article on a dubious assertion from anonymous sources.
Journalists? More like smearing propagandists. But Trump does take too much Putin bait from the media. He needs to steer those conversations to what Hillary has actually done. Uranium to Putinist Russia, failed reset, etc.
Same confidence that they had about Iraq weapons of mass destruction?
No. None.
Ping.
Wait now...the Obama administration leaked classified information?? In hopes of making someone look bad?
I have “high confidence” that the Clinton Foundation is nothing more than a scam. Of course I have no proof, and it would take proof that it wasn't a scam for me to waver off of that belief, I might add. I'll even admit it is due to the fact that, I want to believe, as agent Fox Mulder would say.
The Scooter Libby case was a big deal. He didn’t even leak information that was really a secret. But they nailed him to the wall.
Obama violates national security in order to rig a US election? No big deal.
They say things that they think would hurt Trump, but do it in a way that only hurts themselves.
Keep it up, losers!
And, this just in from the St. Pete (FL) Pravda, err, Tampa Bay Times. Headline top of first page:
Under Obama and the Clintons, I have ZERO confidence in ANY pronouncement, assertion or statement of the federal government up to and including the weather.
But the U.S. intelligence community has “high confidence” IT WAS THE RUSSIAN...
that is far from a hundred percent direct staement as to who did it... and it was done for POLITICAL REASONS...
just like intel assesment reprots from frontline intel officers gets rewritten by BRENNAN and CLAPPER to support Obama’s politics.
MORRELLL did this for Obama nd Clintona nd BRENNAN is doing it for Obama...
they say its russia whcih is a LIE so they then can say RUSSIA IS LYING....
to influence the election and then they LEAK A CLASSIFIED BRIEFING TO TIME MAGAZINE....
isnt that a crime.... of course it is...
but hey open up Langley to make a movie showing how they got OBL
LET THE PRESS IN AND OUT LIKE ITS DISNEYWORLD
GIVE THEM ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED METHODS AND CONTACTS.... why not
OBAMA IS A TRATOR AND NOW IS TRYING TO USE DECEIT TO INFLUENCE THE VOTERS...
BUT I THINK THEY SEE RIGHT THROUGH IT
AND WHAT THEY SEE IS THE TOTAL CORRUPTION THAT OBAMA HAS WROUGHT ON THE GOVERNMENT, THE DECEIT AND THE TREACHERY OF HIS DELIBERATE ESPIONAGE SABOTAGE AND SUBVERSIVE ADMINISTARITON...
and the FBI / DOJ that covers it up....
THE PEOPLE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT AND NOW LOOK AT IT AS AN OUT OF CONTROL CANCER ENCROACHING ON THE CONSTITUTION AND FREEDOM..... and you know what that leads to
a trump landslide victory unless they can get enough illegals and dead people to register..... the machines will take care of the rest ...
You wrote what should be the headline of every publication and every news show's lead story.
The American Taxpayer should pay the legal fees of Scooter.
“... the U.S. intelligence community has “high confidence” that Russian intelligence services were in fact responsible...”
The entire US government has been compromised. Nothing, and I mean nothing coming out of this evil regime can be trusted. The so-called US ‘intelligence’ community is actively working to destroy America as it was founded.
I would trust the Russians way before I would trust the stinking degenerate Obama regime.
The USA is now old South Africa in reverse.
That same ‘high confidence’ told us a video caused Benghazi. I mean our leaders told us so.
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