{"id":72098,"date":"2017-05-17T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72098"},"modified":"2017-05-17T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:41:58","slug":"trump-cant-be-trusted-with-sensitive-information-and-now-the-world-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72098","title":{"rendered":"Trump can\u2019t be trusted with sensitive information \u2014 and now the world knows"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post editorial board is charged up for this opinion piece in this morning’s print edition; Trump can\u2019t be trusted with sensitive information \u2014 and now the world knows<\/a>. As Chief Tango reminds us, that’s pretty hypocritical of the Post to make that declaration, especially given that the folks at the Post can’t be trusted with sensitive information either – especially during a Republican presidential administration;<\/p>\n

The consequences of the president\u2019s lapse could be far-reaching. In addition to disrupting a vital flow of intelligence and possibly endangering agents on the ground, Mr. Trump has let the world know that he and his administration cannot be trusted with sensitive information. Governments that share their secrets with the CIA, from Britain to Israel to Australia, may feel compelled to recalibrate their cooperation. Those that don\u2019t have a cooperative relationship, such as Russia and China, will try to use their access to Mr. Trump to extract more indiscretions.<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s attempts to defend the leak only underlined the continuing chaos in the White House. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s as if they’re talking about themselves. Here’s an article from the early days of the Trump Administration; “Here\u2019s how to leak government documents to The Post<\/a>“. <\/p>\n

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This is precisely why The Washington Post and other news outlets created systems to allow government employees to leak information as securely as possible. <\/p>\n

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If you don\u2019t already have a code name, you\u2019re given one. This allows you to maintain contact with a reporter at The Post if you wish to do so. All of the other information about you is lost through the Tor-SecureDrop system: No IP address, no browser information \u2014 no nothing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not espionage is it? It also explains why they’re so dependent on anonymous sources.<\/p>\n

Remember, all we’re talking about here is ISIS’ intent to bomb airliners with explosives-laden laptops. Its not brand new information. And if it was sensitive that an ally supplied the information to the Trump Administration, why did the New York Times<\/a> identify that ally on their front page?<\/p>\n

Also from the New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the president discussed with the foreign minister was wholly appropriate to that conversation and is consistent with the routine sharing of information between the president and any leaders with whom he\u2019s engaged,\u201d General McMaster said.<\/p>\n

General McMaster suggested that Mr. Trump did not violate any confidentiality agreement with the country that provided it, which he did not name. In fact, General McMaster said: \u201cThe president wasn\u2019t even aware where this information came from. He wasn\u2019t briefed on the source or method of the information either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, he said, the president did not give away secrets by discussing the city the information came from, as reported, because it would have been obvious. \u201cIt was nothing that you would not know from open source reporting in terms of a source of concern,\u201d General McMaster said. \u201cAnd it had all to do with operations that are already ongoing, had been made public for months.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, the media is still clinging to a non-issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post editorial board is charged up for this opinion piece in this morning’s print … Trump can\u2019t be trusted with sensitive information \u2014 and now the world knows<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}