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In reply to the discussion: No, younger Democrats, this isn't like Nixon. This is like Nixon on crack. [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)43. There is no question that it was classified material
Spicer said that they were looking at "news conference logistics". In the government system planning the department's next department picnic would get a "confidential" classification. (By the way much of the hysteria about Secretary Clinton's 8 emails that were found on her private server originate in the public's misunderstanding of the classification system. Those emails were "confidential" level information which is generally available to the public.)
In the government system even discussion about "news conference logistics" would rank a rating of "confidential". What we don't know is if Secret, Top Secret or even higher confidential levels were handled alongside the desert menu.
From the article:
But national security veterans of past administrations still expressed surprise that Mr. Trump and his staff would not have excused themselves to be able to have candid conversations about the North Korean situation and to review sensitive or classified documents.
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No, younger Democrats, this isn't like Nixon. This is like Nixon on crack. [View all]
grantcart
Feb 2017
OP
I remember Watergate; it seemed like an eternity. This is so fast it's making me dizzy.
lagomorph777
Feb 2017
#73
I feel like my head is exploding! I wish I felt more like your image of watching w popcorn.
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#111
No kidding. It took Nixon 5 years for folks to be asking, "What did the President know and
catbyte
Feb 2017
#31
No comparison at all -t here was no rw "alt reality" back then. Well OK mayber there sort of
Kashkakat v.2.0
Feb 2017
#35
Pence is to tRump as Agnew was to Nixon, only much worse too. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2017
#41
As Godawful as Nixon was, and as overjoyed as I was to see him brought down......
Paladin
Feb 2017
#44
Also a congressman & senator. The only person elected president to have served.....
jg10003
Feb 2017
#80
Watergate was only an internal document theft. That was nothing compared to russian complicity
lindysalsagal
Feb 2017
#53
Who didn't see this train wreck, or something like it, happening? Oh, the low-info voters!
Lanius
Feb 2017
#57
It's moving faster than Watergate . . . Thanks, Internet! . . . but does it have legs? n/t
MrModerate
Feb 2017
#60
I haven't heard the suffix "-gate" applied to this mess. Its far too serious and rapidly unraveling.
mulsh
Feb 2017
#75
We've left the Twilight Zone & have gone into Dinner Theatre of the Absurd Zone. Your points are...
Hekate
Feb 2017
#86
Nixon screwing up the Paris Peace talks and Reagan's hostage shenanigans come to mind
bigbrother05
Feb 2017
#88
also nixon opened china to the west. the orange menace is trying to close it back up.
Javaman
Feb 2017
#90
Correct. Reagan got our enemy to tear down a wall. DT is building one beween our friend and neighbor
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#110