Do words matter?

[Dill]

(05-30-2017, 10:15 AM)michaelsean Wrote: His statements on classified info is not really hypocritical.  She was careless, as President he chose to share, which is his right.  You can of course argue whether that was a good decision or not.

Both were "careless," but choosing to share restricted intel from a close ally with a country hostile to both the US and the ally, without prior discussion and ok from intel experts, goes so far beyond hypocritical and careless and into such colossally bad judgment it leaves me speechless--and couple that with letting a TASS journalist slip into the oval office with all his recording gear at the same time. Hillary, McCain, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, Carter, etc.--NONE of them would have done this.

To compound matters, after this glimpse into his ignorance of the risk and complexity of such communication, we learn that Trump spent weeks trying to create a channel to Putin which went AROUND existing safeguards and protocols for it.

US voters gave someone who has no clue how to manage classified communication with hostile foreign powers the "right" to risk all kinds of serious consequences for national security, people on the ground in the Middle East, our allies. etc.

Such classified communication is certainly a place where words matter--they matter to the intel community, that is for sure.

When Trump tweets out that his own CIA are like "Nazis"--foreign intel of allies and enemies takes quick note of the dissension and bad judgment. I feel double astonishment every time I write this--first that it occured and then that so many Trumpsters say "so what if he did; the Obama deep state is trying to take him down." In this case Trump's words matter to the former group, not to the latter.