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Trump, GOP lawmakers eye 'illegal' leaks in wake of Flynn resignation

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[FONT=&quot] ...the leak itself is raising serious questions -- because when the intelligence community captures phone calls of an American inside the U.S., even if the discussion involves a foreign national (in this case an ambassador), steps must be taken to shield the American caller's identity.

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[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"If [the Flynn conversation] was picked up inadvertently, then that would have had to have been approved by someone in the last administration to actually unmask his name so that the FBI or intelligence officials knew who it was on the other end of the phone talking to the Russian ambassador," Nunes told Fox News. "If, in fact, the press reports are right, someone made the decision to deliberately listen to General Flynn's phone calls and that is, I think, unprecedented, unwarranted and flat-out wrong."[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/14/trump-gop-lawmakers-eye-illegal-leaks-in-wake-flynn-resignation.html
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Ok, let's go.....Time to crank up the investigation machine.....
 
true sign of someone that cares nothing about the real security of the US; only concerned about what the source of the leak was ........
 
Reminds me of Nixon and the Plumbers ..... and we know the happy ending on that little comedic tragedy don't we?
 
cuban smokes said:
true sign of someone that cares nothing about the real security of the US; only concerned about what the source of the leak was ........
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That's funny, considering it is the fringe left that is 'only concerned about the source of the leak' with regard to the WikiLeaks release. You love this leak because it embarrasses Trump; you hate the Wikileak because it embarrassed Hillary. Conclusion: political hypocrisy
 
j-mac said:
Ok, let's go.....Time to crank up the investigation machine.....
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Wow. That is big news. Thanks for the post.

Why Cuban liked it, Ill never know. Can it be that he's changing his stripes???

Nah...
 
Fletch said:
That's funny, considering it is the fringe left that is 'only concerned about the source of the leak' with regard to the WikiLeaks release. You love this leak because it embarrasses Trump; you hate the Wikileak because it embarrassed Hillary. Conclusion: political hypocrisy
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well, lemme just say; I never voted for any Clinton, Horn Dog Willie Clinton, nor Sh!tlary Clinon, if that matters .......
 
All the obama toadies told us for years they only collected metadata...


Well lookey here....


And yes the bigger concern is the leaks. By seditious traitors of the former obama administration. Dont care whos prez leaking **** like this should ne treated as a national security threat.

This isnt leaking to whistleblow. This is designed as a campaign to undermine a democratically elected prez.
 
The correct direction is that the CIA has engineered a "soft coup" as a warning to Trump by Obama loyalists trying to preserve the Iran deal.

It should be of great concern that the top secret transcripts of Flints conversation wound up in the hands of the press.

So Obama has gotten his first scalp in abstencia.
 
Ignore what was leaked and focus on "how" it was leaked.

Where have I heard this before?
 
haymarket said:
Reminds me of Nixon and the Plumbers ..... and we know the happy ending on that little comedic tragedy don't we?
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Bannon/Miller are the next century Haldeman/Erlichman.

trump is insulated by having a GOP congress and no honorable senators SO FAR like Sen. Baker .
 
chuckiechan said:
The correct direction is that the CIA has engineered a "soft coup" as a warning to Trump by Obama loyalists trying to preserve the Iran deal.

It should be of great concern that the top secret transcripts of Flints conversation wound up in the hands of the press.

So Obama has gotten his first scalp in abstencia.
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Would that be like the moles Cheney had leaking him Intel during Obama's years ?
 
BrewerBob said:
Ignore what was leaked and focus on "how" it was leaked.

Where have I heard this before?
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The story is still in Flux. The Obama administration was after his ass in December over the Iran deal.

Beyond that, facts are slim.
 
cuban smokes said:
well, lemme just say; I never voted for any Clinton, Horn Dog Willie Clinton, nor Sh!tlary Clinon, if that matters .......
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It doesn't. But the source of this leak should interest people. It doesn't because any form of intellectual curiosity the left might have is drowned out by their irrational hatred of Trump.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
All the obama toadies told us for years they only collected metadata...


Well lookey here....


And yes the bigger concern is the leaks. By seditious traitors of the former obama administration. Dont care whos prez leaking **** like this should ne treated as a national security threat.

This isnt leaking to whistleblow. This is designed as a campaign to undermine a democratically elected prez.
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This is definitely leaking to whistleblow.

When do you think VP Pence would have found out if there were no leaks ?
 
BrewerBob said:
Ignore what was leaked and focus on "how" it was leaked.

Where have I heard this before?
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I think we can focus on both. Right now, however, there is only focus on one.
 
cuban smokes said:
true sign of someone that cares nothing about the real security of the US; only concerned about what the source of the leak was ........
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Hi there, not sure what you think was such a breech of national security? Could you lay that out for us?
 
NIMBY said:
This is definitely leaking to whistleblow.

When do you think VP Pence would have found out if there were no leaks ?
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So you are saying that pence would not have been briefed had this classified information not been keaked.?
 
BrewerBob said:
Ignore what was leaked and focus on "how" it was leaked.

Where have I heard this before?
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One was a hack of a political party. It was a data dump. This here is leaking of specific things classified things to the press specifically to undermine the democratically elected president
 
NIMBY said:
Bannon/Miller are the next century Haldeman/Erlichman.

trump is insulated by having a GOP congress and no honorable senators SO FAR like Sen. Baker .
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Not to worry there my friend...I am sure that democrats can bamboozle Graham, or McCain to take that role.....
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
This here is leaking of specific things classified things to the press specifically to undermine the democratically elected president
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We don't elect presidents democratically under our system of government. If we did, this trainwreck of an administration would not exist.
 
This how police states work. The intelligence agencies destroy targets at the behest of politicians.

We have two scandals. Flint and the CIA leaders.
 
cuban smokes said:
true sign of someone that cares nothing about the real security of the US; only concerned about what the source of the leak was ........
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Leaks to the press can be illegal and of concern if the leaks reveals classified information. Such an example would be information about negotiations with a foreign govt. Even sending email to another govt entity with such information on any network other than SIPRNET server would be considered a security violation.
 
Fletch said:
It doesn't. But the source of this leak should interest people. It doesn't because any form of intellectual curiosity the left might have is drowned out by their irrational hatred of Trump.
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I think we know at least that the 'leaker' is going to be a Sally Yates type, that is a holdover in the intelligence community that, as most liberals do, act on emotion...Problem is this is serious, when they leaked they laid bare 'sources, and methods'... meaning that they directly effected National Security....If they find out Trump should throw the book at them....
 
Huh. It seems that trump supporters have lost their taste for leaks.

Well tough.
 
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