President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on May 17
th, 2017 at 8:34am:
John Smith wrote on May 17
th, 2017 at 7:56am:
SadKangaroo wrote on May 17
th, 2017 at 6:41am:
So Trump and the Whitehouse have shifted gears from denying the sharing of classified material to justifying it...
nothing new there. They do the same with every scandal that comes out of the white house.
Deny, deny, deny
justify, justify, justify
Ffs...Another pair of corksuckers ....

If Trump was sharing information with partners who are helping in the war against ISIS then it isn't classed as classified material.... To Them... ie... the Russians.. in this case...
Durrrrrrrr
The issue was always the identification of the sources based on the information Trump shared, not so much the information itself. The President has broad authority on what information can be declassified so he didn't do anything illegal there. Stupid maybe, but this is Trump after all.
And his National Security Adviser stated that Trump didn't know where the information came from (aka the source) but Trump revealed information about operations including the cities and locations etc which could be used to help track down their sources or even operatives in the field.
And now it has been revealed that it came from Israel.
This is what the greatest concern is.
Now the issue faced going forward is that allies may not be so forthcoming with sharing information with the US if the Trump Administration is so free with details that could identify them as the source.
But of course, people are making excuses, the official line is trying to pivot away and change the focus onto areas they can defend and the Trump Supporters are throwing their usual insults around.
It doesn't matter who is in charge, this sort of conduct and the leaks that accompany it are a real problem.
Naturally if they hadn't already, impeachment papers would have been drawn up for Clinton or any Democratic President over this, but we're supposed to just ignore it because it's Trump and Fake News?