Kushner uses private emails for official business

[Benton]

(03-21-2019, 11:57 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Another difference: This is not an accusation. The attorneys for Kushner and Ivanka both stated that they did this.

So, basically, they did this.

Doing something and being able to accuse someone of doing something are oddly not relatable.

[Bengalzona]

(03-22-2019, 12:05 AM)Benton Wrote: Doing something and being able to accuse someone of doing something are oddly not relatable.

Yes. Benedict Arnold actually betrying the Continental Army was just not as fun to talk about as the rumors that George Washington did.

[Benton]

(03-22-2019, 12:19 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: Yes. Benedict Arnold actually betrying the Continental Army was just not as fun to talk about as the rumors that George Washington did.

Unfortunately, exactly. 

Not that Washington did. But he was a Whig and all Whigs are bad, so it was believable that Washington was a traitor. 

[Bengalzona]

(03-22-2019, 12:54 AM)Benton Wrote: Unfortunately, exactly. 

Not that Washington did. But he was a Whig and all Whigs are bad, so it was believable that Washington was a traitor. 

Our current POTUS has a bad Whig I've noticed.

[Au165]

Lock them up, lock them up!

....am I doing this right?

[Dill]

(03-21-2019, 11:12 PM)Benton Wrote: They aren't kids, they're adults. I get that it takes the edge off to paint them as kids just bungling along in dad's company, but they're over 18. In Campaign Trump's America, hed be incarcerated by now.

Come on, Benton.  It's Jared's first time REPRESENTING THE US in MIDDLE EAST POLICY.  Got to expect a snafu here and there when NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS and linking matters of urgent national interest to PRIVATE LOANS and GREEN LIGHTING GULF BOYCOTTS and WAR in YEMEN all WITHOUT OVERSIGHT OF OUR OWN INTEL COMMUNITY. 

It's not like the CHINESE, RUSSIANS, ISRAELIS and N KOREANS have ears on everything that he does.

He is already a personal friend to MSB. So Jared is doing JUST FINE for someone placed in charge of the Middle East, politically the most complicated conflict region in the world, WITH NO POLICY EXPERIENCE AT ALL.

Let's cut the guy some slack here.

[Dill]

(03-21-2019, 11:20 PM)bfine32 Wrote:
Well they're POTUS' kids. No "edge taking off" intended. I said their access should be revoked at a minimum and criminal charges filed at maximum. Not sure how that's taking the edge off. 

Sounds like you are disrespecting Trump's decision to override the CIA's determination NOT to give his family members access to the highest levels of classified info. 

Trump has the right as POTUS to place as many security-compromised people who lack basic knowledge of their jobs in as many sensitive positions critical to our national interest as he pleases.

It's the American voters who have given him this right, and I am frankly a surprised to see you engaging in personal attacks on Trump's family members just because you don't like his decision.

[Bengalzona]

(03-22-2019, 12:51 PM)Dill Wrote: Come on, Benton.  It's Jared's first time REPRESENTING THE US in MIDDLE EAST POLICY.  Got to expect a snafu here and there when NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS and linking matters of urgent national interest to PRIVATE LOANS and GREEN LIGHTING GULF BOYCOTTS and WAR in YEMEN all WITHOUT OVERSIGHT OF OUR OWN INTEL COMMUNITY. 

It's not like the CHINESE, RUSSIANS, ISRAELIS and N KOREANS have ears on everything that he does.

He is already a personal friend to MSB. So Jared is doing JUST FINE for someone placed in charge of the Middle East, politically the most complicated conflict region in the world, WITH NO POLICY EXPERIENCE AT ALL.

Let's cut the guy some slack here.

Right.

I mean, how else is he going to get top secret U.S. nuclear technology to the Saudis without a commercially available program like Whatsapp?

[NATI BENGALS]

So the guy who shouldnt even have security clearance, who only has a job in the white house because his father in law is the prez, is doing shady shit.

Oh wow. I am surprised. Now i know the law and order party will do the right thing like they have for the last 2+ years and wont be crooked shitbags who put party over country.

[Vas Deferens]

but he's taking screenshots of the conversations and forwarding them to the oversight division. that division hasn't been staffed appropriately for the last couple of years, but thats not HIS fault.

[Benton]

(03-22-2019, 02:02 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: but he's taking screenshots of the conversations and forwarding them to the oversight division.  that division hasn't been staffed appropriately for the last couple of years, but thats not HIS fault.

Anthony Weiner used to take pics and send them to understaffed government employees, and Republicans raged. Kushner takes pictures and... oh, er, nevermind. Different understaffed.

[BmorePat87]

Did we expect more when they handed our Middle East foreign policy over to a guy whose career consists of taking over his dad’s apartments after pops went to jail?

[Vas Deferens]

(03-22-2019, 03:01 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Did we expect more when they handed our Middle East foreign policy over to a guy whose career consists of taking over his dad’s apartments after pops went to jail?

Wait. What happened to “only the best” people?

Is daddy not to be believed?

[Bengalzona]

Apparently, Bannon was doing this too while he was in the White House.

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-mcfarland-personal-email-nuclear-technology-saudi-arabia-1371358?fbclid=IwAR2UrxX5DcuY2XYAkXOi887YZzNCe-nIjvGLo33Hg8i19DQ4JyyM_U2d9-k

Quote:Steve Bannon, WH Staff Accused of Using Personal Email to Discuss Sending Sensitive Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia

Quote:Representative Elijah Cummings said Thursday the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform had obtained documents showing that former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland discussed transferring sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, according to a letter released publicly.

Cummings's letter to White House counsel Pat Cipollone alleged that the documents showed McFarland used her personal AOL email account for official purposes, coordinating with White House officials and Tom Barrack—a friend of President Donald Trump and the chair of his inaugural committee—about sending the technology to the Saudis.

Cummings also wrote that the House committee, which he chairs, had obtained documents that appeared to show Bannon received messages to his personal email from Barrack about the technology transfer.

"These communications appear to be sent while Mr. Bannon worked at the White House in order to inform Mr. Bannon's official work relating to developing 'broader middle east policy,'" the letter read.

Cummings's letter suggested the "communications raise questions about whether these officials complied with the Presidential Records Act and whether the White House identified this personal email use during its internal review and took steps to address it."

In February, a House oversight committee report alleged that national security adviser Michael Flynn pushed a plan to sell technology for nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia, which led to concerns on the part of ethics officials. The letter was full of items that made news Thursday, including a claim that Abbe Lowell, a lawyer to White House adviser Jared Kushner, said that Kushner "has used—and continues to use—WhatsApp as part of his official duties in the White House."

According to the letter, Lowell said that Kushner wasn't violating records preservation laws because he sends screenshots to his official White House email address.

In the letter, Cummings requests further documents and information by April 4, including information on officials who used personal email addresses, text messages, messaging services or encryption software to conduct official business.

For the love of God, what the f*** is wrong with these people? Are they that mentally incompetent? Do they hate America and Americans that much?