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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo let me get this straight, it's okay to hand over classified information to Russian spies
So let me get this straight, it's okay to hand over classified information to Russian spies in the Oval Office and no investigation is required, but we needed to devote 20,000 man hours and $8,000,000 investigating the emails on the harddrive of a server that was taken offline and archived five years ago.
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So let me get this straight, it's okay to hand over classified information to Russian spies (Original Post)
Snake Plissken
May 2017
OP
It gets worse, we can expect Trump's new FBI chief to seek indictment for Hillary.
Eliot Rosewater
May 2017
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)1. Why yes, that's exactly it.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)2. It gets worse, we can expect Trump's new FBI chief to seek indictment for Hillary.
ms liberty
(8,573 posts)3. Yea, that's it in a nutshell. n/t
LisaM
(27,806 posts)4. A server that was, BTW, completely secure.
And on which nothing marked classified at the time was ever stored.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)5. This shit is fucking unbelievable
tRump is mentally deranged
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)6. Yes, if you're a Republican those are the "straight" priorities. n/t
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)7. If I'm understanding the Trump defenders
on the news right now, this is ok and will be a regular occurrence, because he's President and can declassify anything he wants, anytime he wants. Then it's fine to share it.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)8. And you can bet if it were Clinto or Obama that had done this
The GOP would have had the articles of impeachment written up before the evening news!
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)9. I think you pretty much covered it yes