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Again, the operational details are sparse, and even contradictory. One source said the actual room where the ISIS cell would meet was spiked, a tiny marvel of a microphone placed where it would never be noticed. Another maintained that an adjacent telephone junction box had been ingeniously manipulated so that every word spoken in a specific location would be overheard.
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He quickly went on to share with representatives of a foreign adversary not only the broad outlines of the plot to turn laptop computers into airborne bombs but also at least one highly classified operational detailthe sort of sensitive, locked-in-the-vault intel that was not shared with even Congress or friendly governments. The president did not name the U.S. partner who had spearheaded the operation. (Journalists, immediately all over the astonishing story, would soon out Israel). But, more problematic, President Trump cavalierly identified the specific city in ISIS-held territory where the threat had been detected.
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But ultimately it is the actions of men, not their motives, that propel history forward. And the presidents reckless disclosure continues to wreak havoc. On one level, the greatest casualty was trust. The president was already waging a perilous verbal war with the U.S. intelligence agencies. His sharing secrets with the Russians has very likely ground whatever remnants of a working relationship had survived into irreparable pieces. How can the agency continue to provide the White House with intel, challenged one former operative, without wondering where it will wind up? And he added ominously, Those leaks to The New York Times and The Washington Post about the investigations into Trump and his cohorts is no accident. Trust me: you dont want to get into a pissing match with a bunch of spooks. This is war.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip
madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)Trump has betrayed not only the Israelis, but every American. Each day he makes the world more dangerous.
lastlib
(23,237 posts)this idjit man-child has compromised those who work for America's security, and thereby, compromised each one of us as citizens. We as a nation will pay a heavy price for his idiocy, and for that of his "base" and supporters.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)He's quite likely totally in the pocket of the Russians, but even so, is a child.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)He makes our enemies stronger and our allies weaker
Every word, every tweet, every action, every non action, telegraphs his idiocy to our enemies.
He is easy as a child to manipulate.
The failure to man state dept positions will lead to the next terrorist attacks which will occur by next Summer
groundloop
(11,519 posts)I'm not positive if 45* has ever gone out of his way to help Putin or not, but he's most certainly unintentionally done just that through his childish bragging etc.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)to protect the USA, but the opposite, helping him to destroy democracy.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)demmiblue
(36,854 posts)ewagner
(18,964 posts)...it's almost too fantastic to be true...
spanone
(135,838 posts)great article, THANKS!!!
dchill
(38,497 posts)magicarpet
(14,152 posts).... powers the GOP can only dream of. The worse it gets the better for the GOP and their agenda. More full enactment of the Patriot Act adds the speed of light component to reaching their political agendas, things will then happen far more swiftly.
The GOP does not hope America incrementally improves to the benefit of all the citizens. Their thoughts and prayers wish for and welcome disruption and despair so that Shock Doctrine and destruction capitalism can become fully implemented. Where by the select few can plunder, pilfer, and profit during the turmoil they stage by design as a cover for the theft of the commons.
Obscene enrichment for themselves and their cronies is all they dream of or really care about. They full intend to crush and destroy anyone who impedes or blocks their way to wealth and riches they crave and think they deserve. Gluttony is too kind a derogatory term to define and describe them.
Irish_Dem
(47,095 posts)had leverages of power" over Trump."
Which we had the specifics.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Lock them up.
dalton99a
(81,510 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)"Pissing match" is a very poor way to describe threatening security of people lives and their ability to do their jobs.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Just frightening. These petulant fools who voted for them have no idea of the hell and turmoil they have wrought.