Romney tells public of secret meeting with MI6 spy chief

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/26/romney-tells-public-of-secret-meeting-with-mi6-spy-chief/

By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, July 26, 2012 16:43 EDT

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday disclosed that he had a meeting with the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, an admission that was seen as a gaffe in the United Kingdom.

“I can only say that I appreciated the insights and the perspectives of the leaders of the government here and opposition here as well as the head of MI6 as we discussed Syria and hoped for a more peaceful future for that country,” he said outside 10 Downing Street in London.

Meetings between Sir John Sawers, the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, and public officials are typically kept secret. Following Romney’s comment, neither MI6 nor the Republican candidate’s own campaign would acknowledge the existence of the meeting.

[jillan]

1. Has he done anything right since he has been there? Msnbc said he just did a fund raiser with

people involved in LIBOR.

oh my....

[Politicalboi]

2. And the nuke code is

I thought Rmoney was familiar with "secret closed meetings".

You know, the Anglo Saxon types.

[dimbear]

3. Like they say in France, "En boca cerrada, no entran moscas."

Whey they say that in France is unclear, since it's Spanish for " A closed mouth catches no flies."

[nolabear]

4. Stop, Mitt! Stop!! I can't breathe!!!

[lindysalsagal]

10. If Mittens riggs the election and wins, at least we'll be laughing

right up until they ship us all off to the work camps....

[Playinghardball]

5. I like it that Romney just keeps stepping on his dick...

[rocktivity]

6. You need a scorecard to keep up with this guy!

Last edited Thu Jul 26, 2012, 07:35 PM - Edit history (1)

The Anglo Saxon thing
The "I Ran A Better Olympics" thing
The "Brit Media Only Presser" thing
"I Don't Know Or Care What My Wife Will Be Doing In The Olympics" thing
The (shouldn't have been a) secret meeting with investors thing
The (should have been a) secret meeting with British intelligence

And his European trip is less than 48 hours old!


rocktivity

[Tx4obama]

13. He said he had spent a great day in the 'backside' of Downing Street, instead of the 'back garden'

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125160397

[Tx4obama]

16. Another.. Romney’s press-corps faux pas

*** Romney’s press-corps faux pas: During his meeting with Miliband, according to the pool report, Romney answered questions from British reporters but did not take any questions from the American reporters, which isn’t protocol. In fact, it’s considered a bit of an insult to the U.S reporters who are following the presumptive GOP presidential nominee overseas. Even bringing this up will lead some to say, “There goes the media, whining again.” But folks, those of us that have traveled overseas and been involved in these VERY limited press avails have rarely seen heads of democracies TOTALLY ignore their own press corps but answer ANOTHER press corps’ questions. Sure, it would have looked REALLY bad had Romney ignored the U.K. questions. But is the campaign so intent on limiting media access that the candidate won’t call an audible when standing next to a leader from another country who DOES want to take questions? This is a bipartisan challenge for the press corps. Every president in the modern era has decided to pick up on some aspect of limiting media access to the president from their predecessor. The public never cares, because most of them distrust at least half of the press corps. But folks, it’s a slippery slope. Where did Obama get the idea of calling on an ordered list of questioners at press conferences? From George W. Bush. OK, our rant is over.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/26/12968214-first-thoughts-london-calling?lite

[rocktivity]

17. He couldn't have TWO press conferences?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1027602


rocktivity

[Tx4obama]

19. Here ya go, Democrats.org made ya a scorecard image - link below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101744292

[DCBob]

7. If this idiot actually wins it might not be a good idea to give him the nuke codes.

He's like a George Castanza when it comes to keeping secrets.

[rocktivity]

18. It's said that Nixon was secretly "relieved" of his nuke code privileges toward the end

and I wouldn't be surprised if Bush II was relieved of them from the beginning.


rocktivity

[progressivebydesign]

8. Ok. But why the hell did they give a secret briefing to someone not EVEN the nominee yet?

he's a private citizen with investments, no doubt, in defense contractors and such. WHy would they give him a briefing like that anyway??? That's about as stupid as you can get.

Almost as stupid as his comment about it.

[XemaSab]

9. It was probably the same "secret briefing" that they'd give to Sasha Obama

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. It wasn't very secret was it?

[Patiod]

12. The first rule of MI6?

Aw come on, this is like shooting fish in a barrel.

[JBoy]

14. The reason for Romney's meeting with MI6 has already been leaked:

[joeybee12]

15. If a meeting is secret, and you tell people it was a secret meeting...

It's no longer a secret! Get it, you dumb shit?