Maybe.
Posted on 08/12/2018 4:25:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A former CIA analyst blasted ex-Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Sunday for secretly recording chief of staff John Kelly in the White House Situation Room.
Manigault Newman unveiled the 20-second audio clip on Sunday, depicting Kelly firing her inside the Situation Room — the highly sensitive space where phones and electronic devices are prohibited for security reasons.
Ned Price, a former Obama special assistant and CIA official, tweeted that it wouldn’t be that difficult to sneak a phone into the office because the system is “built on trust."
“Those are supposed to be the finest public servants we have,” Price tweeted. “The WH wasn’t [de]signed for the Omarosas of the world. Sad we now have to accommodate them.”
Price also questioned why this personnel conversation with the then-director of communications for the White House’s Office of Public Liaison did not take place in Kelly’s office.
"This is bigger than Omarosa. It’s a culture of disregard for our [national] security," Price wrote.
The White House echoed Price's comments on Sunday.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that the “very idea a staff member would sneak a recording device into the White House Situation Room, shows a blatant disregard for our national security.”
“And then to brag about it on national television further proves the lack of character and integrity of this disgruntled former White House employee,” Huckabee Sanders continued.
A number of journalists, national security experts and former White House staffer raised alarms about the dangers of recording in the Situation Room.
"If Omarosa carried for example a cellphone into the Situation Room, then not only did she record conversations there, but so potentially has any country or criminal organization that thought to hack her phone," David Frum, senior editor at The Atlantic, tweeted Sunday.
Shortly after Omarosa revealed the recording, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted that the former aide should be "prosecuted" if her actions constitute a violation of federal law.
"Secretly recording conversations in the Situation Room isn't just wildly inappropriate, it's a threat to our national security. If she broke federal law, she should be prosecuted," McDaniel wrote.
It's unclear if Manigault Newman's recording amounts to a criminal offense.
difficult to sneak a phone into the office
and you think those breasts are real ?
Maybe.
is she giving away the recordings or is she selling them
They are fake, Jim. But I would need to test them myself just to be sure.
Integrity requires testing. It’s just basic common sense.
It's not a question as to whether that's a felony punishable by prison time.
Why is the WH afraid to go after her? Are they worried she'll become a martyr and be seen as a victim of the President?
The longer they wait to act the less credibility they have.
The optics of charging a Black Woman terrifies them and she knows it. A scumbag to the core but l bet nothing happens to her.
“...if any federal laws were violated...”?!?!?
WTF kind of weasely mush-mouth BS is this? It’s patently obvious she broke sort sort of penalty-bearing prohibition here.
Every SCIF I heard about, or even had proximity to, was death on any type of recording device - even before cellphones!
And I’ve been in a few non-SCIF classified briefings where everybody deposited their cellphone in an envelope with their name on it and left it at the door before they could even enter the room.
Any sort of a recording/transmitting device would have resulted in swift cultural rearrangement to a striped suit and your very own personal rock pile, three hots and a cot included.
Sounds like time for equal opportunity prosecution.
Getting very tired of the lawlessness that goes without being given punishment. I love President Trump. But at some point there has to be consequences for all of this criminal behavior run wild. You can’t blame Jeff Sessions as President Trump is his boss. We all know how this works. Trump is in charge and if this lawlessness continues to reign it falls back on him only.
Anyone wonder now who leaked the Phone call between Trump and Australian P.M. over the he refugees shortly after taking office.
Clearly P.E.D.s
This violation of protocol was established during the Obummer admin.
Do they stop a 380 like that Brazilian? Is the only test I am interested in on that whore
Excellent detective work!
This tramp never should have been hired in the first place. What could she have possibly contributed?
See post #3, it’s the answer as to why anyone has ever heard of her.
“and you think those breasts are real?”
I volunteer to find out. If I’m not back in a fortnight, send reinforcements.
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