Trump ‘Revealed Highly Classified Information’ to Russian Ambassador

Discussion in 'Politics' started by exGOPer, May 15, 2017.

  1. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    I was about to post another link.

    Did Hillary as secretary of state have to approve the sale of the equity stake in the uranium company to Russia?

    I am not whining about it.

    Wildchild stated, "Hillary also signed off on a deal that put 20% of America's uranium under Russian control."

    Wildchild didn't mention anything about money.

    You posted a link that stated Hillary approved the deal because Clinton Foundation received $145 million.

    The first part of the headline is true. She approved the deal.
     
    #11     May 15, 2017
  2. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    No, Hillary had no personal role in it, an agency within her department did which doesn't have to take her input - just like the six (or more?) agencies signed off on it. No US uranium went to Russia, no US Uranium can go out of the country and the company was Canadian.

    Thanks for playing, deflection still denied.
     
    #12     May 15, 2017
  3. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    That makes sense. I mean it is unlikely that the Secretary of State would have anything to do with or have knowledge of the department she runs when the department she runs is making decisions with respect to weapons grade uranium and other countries.
     
    #13     May 15, 2017
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  4. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Believe it or not, SoS is not a CEO, there are bureaucratic agencies within agencies who decides on these things and then there is the Inspector General who gets to oversee these things, now surely Clinton could have come in and overridden them if they didn't want to approve the equity sale but there is no evidence of anything like that happening. Multiple US agencies not under Clinton's control signed off on it, so why the fuck is this being made out to be Clinton's doing? Oh wait a minute, I know why, because you want to change the subject from the organtuan's latest disaster

    Deflection denied.
     
    #15     May 15, 2017
  5. java

    java

    Are you implying the Secretary of State was telling the truth? Why would he do that?
     
    #16     May 15, 2017
  6. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

  7. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Total BS. They are saying Trump didn't reveal 'methods and sources' - NOBODY, including WAPO who broke the story is accusing Trump of that.

    But according to the officials, Mr. Trump discussed the contents of the intelligence, not the sources and methods used to collect it. The concern is that knowledge of the information about the Islamic State plot could allow the Russians to figure out those details.

    In fact, the current official said that Mr. Trump shared granular details of the intelligence with the Russians. Among the details the president shared was the city in Syria where the ally picked up information about the plot, though Mr. Trump is not believed to have disclosed that the intelligence came from a Middle Eastern ally or precisely how it was gathered.

    General McMaster did not address that in naming the city, in Islamic State-controlled territory, Mr. Trump gave Russia an important clue about the source of the information.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html?_r=0

    Can't weasel out of this one with non-denial denial.
     
    #18     May 15, 2017
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  8. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Weaseled.
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...at_came_out_tonight_as_reported_is_false.html

    LT. GEN. H.R. McMASTER, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: I have a brief statement for the record. There is nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the American people. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. The president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation.


    At no time, at no time, where intelligent sources or methods discussed. And the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. Two other senior officials who were present, including the Secretary of the State, remember the meeting the same way and have said so. Their on the record accounts should outweigh anonymous sources. I was in the room. It didn't happen.
     
    #19     May 15, 2017
  9. wildchild

    wildchild

    Hey dunce, maybe you should learn reading comprehension.

    Wildchild stated, "Hillary also signed off on a deal that put 20% of America's uranium under Russian control."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/...ssed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0

    "Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton."

    BTW, Hillary Clinton is still a loser.
     
    #20     May 16, 2017
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