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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The President can declassify anything he wants"
Is the new memo from republicans and the deplorables.
mshasta
(2,108 posts).
kentuck
(111,049 posts)Maybe he is an asset of Vladimir Putin?
C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)Endangering all sorts of people and our trusted allies (Israel) with his gross incompetence.
madaboutharry
(40,181 posts)It wasn't our intel to declassify. The intel came from an ally.
rzemanfl
(29,554 posts)"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,...."
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Trump just lost more credibility in the world. None of the allies are going to want to share their intel with the U.S. in the future. Plus, it might get an allied foreign agent or intel source killed, for all we know.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)With a minimum level of competence far above a fucking preschooler.
procon
(15,805 posts)Ethically and morally then, what was Trump's intent when he divulged the information to one of America's most cunning and dangerous foreign opponents? Given the possible consequences, was it the best decision Trump could have made?
benld74
(9,901 posts)Johnny2X2X
(18,967 posts)Secretary of State can too.
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)....when our allies decide to stop feeding us intel, and potentially make us less safe and able to thwart a terrorist attack, all because we have a president who is a vainglorious blabbermouth.
I say 'we' and 'us' even though I am Canadian. Cuz, as we say up here, when America sneezes we catch a cold.
JHB
(37,152 posts)I'm sure the people who get outed from his heedless blabbermouthing will take comfort in putting that on their tombstones.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)because the country that provided this intel has decided Trump is too fucking stupid to share info with?
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)tanyev
(42,513 posts)But not because you're running your mouth showing off your super cool tree house to the neighborhood bullies you want to impress.