The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
Politico: Judge: Trump tweet did not declassify CIA program for Syrian rebels
The judge rejected arguments that Trump effectively confirmed the existence of the program when he used his Twitter account last July to counter a Washington Post story.
A tweet from President Donald Trump disputing aspects of a news report about a CIA program to aid Syrian rebels did not declassify the program or undermine the government’s legal authority to keep details about it secret, a federal judge ruled in an opinion released Monday.
U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Carter Jr. rejected arguments that Trump effectively confirmed the existence of the program when he used his Twitter account last July to counter a Washington Post story that reported Trump’s decision to end the effort and suggested that the move was a concession to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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WNU Editor: I recall at the time the New York Times was pushing for days the story that President Trump revealed classified CIA programs. Maybe .... and maybe not .... but I cannot say with 100% accuracy that the above tweet revealed anything. And I am not alone .... a US Federal judge is saying the same thing.
Trump tweeted
ReplyDelete1) in reply to the newspaper, and
2) in denial ("fabricated the facts")
So
1) it was the newspaper that made this program public/declassified it
2) but it was Trump who brought attention to this story, and by criticising the paper for getting facts wrong (not the existence of the program! ) he subsequently increased the problem
But. It was a) the newspaper that declassified it and b) the president (Obama or Trump or whoever is in office) can declassify at will. He/she won't need approval. That's one of the presidents superpowers.
So the judge was right to toss it out.. no matter how much the left wants him to go to jail and screams in their outrage shrike
Oh. .and turns out that am advisor to Wassermann -Schultz (fomer DNC top dog & Democrat) now has pleaded guilty to bank fraud. The same thing most big indictments on the Mueller probe are for (EG. Cohen and Manafort).. but of course no mention on CNN about this or Wassermann Schultz. .it happened during the same time where Donna Brazile passed on town hall questions in the 2016 election season to hillary Clinton. .and she was on the CNN payroll at the time. ..the amount of corruption on the left and their blindness to all of this. ..it's just incredible
On top you have lefties attacking (and a year ago shooting republicans), but call them out on it and -you- are the bigot.