The Sabotaging of the President

It’s time for the President to take on the Trump-hating bureaucracy.

by JEFFREY LORD

So.

Last night the Washington Post sends the media nerve system crazy with this story:

Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats

The story begins as follows, bold print supplied:

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.

The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.

“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”

Take note of two things.

First: The existence of the story itself, unpublishable if someone in that room did not leak to someone else — who may, in turn, have leaked to someone else — in this case the Washington Post.

Second: Note this line, again, bold print supplied: “… according to current and former U.S. officials…”

Catch that? The words “… and former U.S.officials…?” How does any “former U.S. official” have any access… any access at all… to what did or did not go on in a highly classified conversation in the Oval Office between this or any President and any foreign leader? Hello? Hello? Is that you Obama holdovers?

Let’s get down to brass tacks, shall we?

There were a highly classified handful of people in the Oval Office for that meeting with the President of the United States, the Russian Foreign Minister, and the Russian Ambassador to the U.S.

Whatever the President said or didn’t say was willfully, deliberately, and with malice aforethought — leaked to the Washington Post. 

Just in the last week the Post published stories that said the Deputy Attorney General had threatened to resign. Reported the Post:

[Rod] Rosenstein threatened to resign after the narrative emerging from the White House on Tuesday evening cast him as a prime mover of the decision to fire Comey and that the president acted only on his recommendation, said the person close to the White House, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

This story was specifically denied by Rosenstein himself, who was tracked down by Sinclair Broadcast Group’s D.C. affiliate WJLA. The station caught Rosenstein on camera and headlined:

Deputy AG Rosenstein: ‘I’m not quitting,’ didn’t threaten to quit over Comey firing

In other words? The Post story was false.

Then there was the Post tale that Director Comey had asked for more resources for the Bureau’s Russia investigation. As headlined here:

Furor over Comey firing grows with news that he sought resources for Russia investigation before his dismissal

And then? As I reported over at NewsBusters last weekend, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified as headlined here:

FBI has sufficient resources for Russia investigation: McCabe

Let me be clear. I am a First Amendment fundamentalist. The Post has the constitutional right to publish whatever it wants to publish. But last week they got not one but two stories wrong. An issue of credibility that they love to lay at the feet of the Trump White House.

But let me be equally clear. No one… say again no one… who works for the President of the United States has the right to leak classified information to anyone, least of all a journalist. There can be only one reason for this leak, and let me speak that reason plainly: Sabotage.

Someone… someone…took classified information and deliberately and with malice aforethought leaked it to the Washington Post. For one… and only one… reason: To sabotage the President of the United States. full story

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About Rhett October 1056 Articles
Rhett October is a man independent of the nanny state. He sees what is obvious but to many others is a successful deception. He has a crush on Tomi Lahren. Follow him on Twitter @RhettOctober "After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more." -Morpheus