Are you fucking kidding me with this shit:
- The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said that Trump’s decision to do so risks 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 National Security Agency.
"Individuals who are "extremely careless" with classified information should be denied further access to such info." - Paul Ryan on July 7, 2016
“Per @TreyYingst, Bannon, Mike Dubke, Sarah Sanders and Spicer walked into cabinet room just now. They did not look happy.” “Can now hear yelling coming from room where officials are.” “Sarah H. Sanders told reporters she didn’t know anything about yelling.” “WH comms staffers just put the TVs on super loud after we could hear yelling coming from room w/ Bannon, Spicer, Sanders”
I'm betting the intel came out of Israel. Anybody else?
Heard speculation on NPR this morning that it might have been Jordan. Trump's got a call scheduled with the King later on today. I'd say I'd love to be a fly on that wall, but given the slant of things, I'm sure we'll know exactly how it went and what was said soon enough.
The White House is "denying" it, but only in the most "we actually did it" way possible. McMasters was very specific in what he denied (saying that Trump didn't reveal sources or methods), and Trump tweeted this morning that he "has the right" to do this thing that he supposedly didn't do.
On The Media did a great piece this week about what "The White House" means anymore in regards to sourcing a story. Their position is that it's absolutely meaningless, because Trump (a) doesn't have any real policy positions, and (b) intentionally gives staffers bad information in order to maintain his status as the only one who really knows anything. Hence, constant contradiction from the President about almost everything his people say. OTM's argument was that stories should no longer be sources as being from "The White House" but rather only specific individuals.
Yeah I think that's a reasonable interpretation. He also likes to have people available to scapegoat when things go wrong.
The White House denied it, only for Trump to confirm it (and attempt to defend what he did) on Twitter.