Report: McMaster Called Trump ‘Dope’ With The Smarts Of A ‘Kindergartner’
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was unsparingly critical of President Donald Trump at a July dinner with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, according to a report BuzzFeed News published on Monday.

McMaster called Trump an “idiot,” a “dope” and said he has the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” BuzzFeed reported, citing five unnamed sources with knowledge of McMaster’s and Catz’s conversation.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/re...a-kindergartner

A notorious Russian Twitter troll came back, and for a week Twitter did nothing
... Using the pseudonym "Jenna Abrams" and photographs of a Russian woman, the troll account in its initial incarnation posted more than 25,000 tweets using an invented persona of a conservative American woman. Before it was shut down, "Abrams" amassed a following of more than 70,000 -- including, according to a CNN analysis, former members of the Trump administration Michael Flynn and Sebastian Gorka, as well as Flynn's son Michael Flynn Jr.
The account was on Twitter for years until the company determined it was part of a network of almost 3,000 accounts run by the Internet Research Agency, a troll army in St Petersburg, Russia, that has ties to the Kremlin, and shut it down.

Among other things, including denying that the account was run by Russians and telling Americans to blame themselves rather than Vladimir Putin for the election of Donald Trump, the author or authors of the post disclosed that there was a new Abrams Twitter account, @realJennaAbrams.
The new account, which began tweeting on November 8, doesn't just boldly use the name Jenna Abrams in its handle. It also used, for a period, the same profile picture as the original account. And when it started tweeting, it immediately began mocking, in tweets and in its profile, American media's coverage of the original account.
"This article is my favorite one," the new account tweeted with a link to a Guardian story headlined, "Jenna Abrams: the Trump-loving Twitter star who never really existed."
In its profile, the account included snippets from articles about it as if it were a movie being reviewed: "She is basically Vladimir Putin - The Guardian Russia's best troll - Mashable"
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/17/media/ne...twitter-russia/

F.C.C. Is Said to Plan Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules
The Federal Communications Commission is preparing a full repeal of net neutrality rules that require broadband providers to give consumers equal access to all content on the internet, putting more power in the hands of those companies to dictate people’s online experiences.

A rollback of net neutrality regulations would represent a significant victory for broadband and telecom companies like AT&T and Comcast and would amount to a strike against consumers. When the rules were passed in 2015, they underlined the importance of high-speed internet to the lives of Americans and the need to more strongly regulate the communications service like a utility, as essential as electricity and the telephone.

But under a repeal, companies like AT&T and Comcast may be able to charge people higher fees to access certain websites and online services. The companies may also be able to prioritize their own services while disadvantaging websites run by rivals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/techn...neutrality.html

Exclusive - State Dept. revolt: Tillerson accused of violating U.S. law on child soldiers
A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal government documents reviewed by Reuters.

A confidential State Department “dissent” memo not previously reported said Tillerson breached the Child Soldiers Prevention Act when he decided in June to exclude Iraq, Myanmar, and Afghanistan from a U.S. list of offenders in the use of child soldiers. This was despite the department publicly acknowledging that children were being conscripted in those countries.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-t...s-idUSKBN1DL0EA

AS THE F.B.I. CLOSES IN, TRUMP’S LAWYERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO KEEP HIM CALM
The White House is projecting optimism that the investigation will soon conclude, but experts think it’s “just getting started.”

With Donald Trump predisposed to self-sabotage in what may ultimately become an obstruction of justice case, the president’s lawyers have assured him that he has nothing to fear from Robert Mueller. It’s a tricky balancing act, given Trump’s past history of criticism for the special counsel. The president’s natural impulse for obstructive, combative behavior is also, in this case, a potential legal risk. So while F.B.I. investigators appear to have zeroed in on critical events that transpired before and after the real-estate mogul’s unexpected victory last fall, including Jeff Sessions’s recusal and the ouster of James Comey, Trump’s lawyers are taking pains to project calm, telling the president that he has nothing to fear and that the investigation, which some posit is just getting started, will wind down soon. ...

... And while Trump’s lawyers and spokespeople had previously said they believe the investigation will be over by Thanksgiving, that timeframe was probably always fantastical. Allen notes, “I’m told that Mueller's team is rooting around inside Trumpworld more deeply than is publicly known. Outside West Wing advisers tell me that may create a showdown.” One G.O.P. operative in close contact with the Trump White House characterized Mueller’s approach as “working through the staff like Pac-Man” and dismissed the idea that Trumpworld is undaunted. “Of course they are worried,” the Republican said. “Anybody that ever had the words ‘Russia’ come out of their lips or in an e-mail, they’re going to get talked to. These things are thorough and deep. It’s going to be a long winter.”

One source told the Post that Mueller is executing a “a classic Gambino-style roll-up” that “will reach everyone in this administration.”

Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches law at George Washington University, told the Post. “Based not just on what we’ve seen but also what we know about white-collar investigations generally, this seems to me like it is just getting started.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/...-mueller-russia

Trump Jr. met with man with close ties to Kremlin
CBS News has confirmed that Donald Trump Jr. met with Alexander Torshin – a man with close ties to the Kremlin -- at an NRA event in May 2016. Torshin had been trying to set up a meeting with then-candidate Donald Trump but ended up being introduced to Mr. Trump's son.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jr-me...linkId=44949927


Russia probe: Trump's tweets could be evidence against him, legal experts say
President Trump's Twitter habit may become a legal liability for him, as his latest tweets about the Russia investigation could help build a potential case against him for obstruction of justice or witness intimidation, legal experts say.

Trump's tweets about indictments in the Russia probe "could be used to further support a case against him for obstruction of justice," said Barry Berke, a partner at the New York law firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel.
"To the extent the president’s tweets regarding the indictment of Manafort and Gates or the cooperation of Papadopoulos are knowingly false and intended to mislead investigators, influence the testimony of others or cover up what actually occurred, that could support an obstruction of justice case," Berke said.

Bookbinder said the president's tweets about Papadopoulos could be construed by Mueller as the continuation of a pattern of obstruction that also includes allegedly pressing former FBI director James Comey to stop his investigation of Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and then firing Comey when he wouldn't back off.
"To say the least, it is very unusual for the president of the United States to attack a witness who is cooperating with the United States in an ongoing federal investigation," Norman Eisen, chief White House ethics lawyer for former president Barack Obama and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, wrote in a recent op-ed in USA TODAY. "Think about it: When you are a witness in a case that threatens the most powerful man in the world, and he attacks you publicly, that is scary."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...atio/872567001/

Donald Trump is playing zero-dimensional chess (again)

... When Trump won the White House -- against all odds -- the working assumption was that he had executed a plan so brilliant and so complex that only he (and the few advisers he let in on the plan) could see it. He was playing three-dimensional chess while the media, the Clinton campaign and virtually everyone else was still playing checkers.
But as his first year in the White House has progressed, there's mounting evidence that Trump may not be playing three-dimensional chess. In fact, he might just be playing zero-dimensional chess. As in, the only strategy Trump is pursuing is no strategy at all. ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/d...ff-flake-tweet/

He’s a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It Gave Him a Code Name.
For two decades, Representative Dana Rohrabacher has been of value to the Kremlin, so valuable in recent years that the F.B.I. warned him in 2012 that Russia regarded him as an intelligence source worthy of a Kremlin code name.

The following year, the California Republican became even more valuable, assuming the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee that oversees Russia policy. He sailed to re-election again and again, even as he developed ties to Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia.

Then came President Trump.

As revelations of Russia’s campaign to influence American politics consume Washington, Mr. Rohrabacher, 70, who had no known role in the Trump election campaign, has come under political and investigative scrutiny. The F.B.I. and the Senate Intelligence Committee are each seeking to interview him about an August meeting with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, Mr. Rohrabacher said. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is said to be interested in a meeting he had last year with Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s short-lived national security adviser.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/po...under-fire.html

Russia is taking the lead on Syria, leaving the U.S. on the sidelines
Despite saying it would work with the United States, Russia is focusing on working Iran and Turkey on the future of Syria.

https://thinkprogress.org/russia-is-taki...s-dc8cc707ab91/

Durch das Vakuum der inepten Trumpskys baut sich da eine interessante Machtachse unter Putin's Fuehrung auf.

EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2787

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

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Sie werden die Nachricht gelesen haben, was denn sonst?

NOVEMBER 23, 2017 - REPORT: TRUMP TOLD RUSSIAN OFFICIALS OF ISRAELI OPERATION IN SYRIA IN MAY

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/R...a-in-May-515027

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2788

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2787

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

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Sie werden die Nachricht gelesen haben, was denn sonst?

NOVEMBER 23, 2017 - REPORT: TRUMP TOLD RUSSIAN OFFICIALS OF ISRAELI OPERATION IN SYRIA IN MAY

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/R...a-in-May-515027

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Natuerlich. Insbesondere die letzten zwei Saetze:

"Netanyahu told reporters that "intelligence cooperation is terrific, never been better."

und

"The Vanity Fair report sheds new light on the details of the meeting."

Das besagte "new light" ist der von mir eingestellte Artikel.

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2789

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2788

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2787

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

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Sie werden die Nachricht gelesen haben, was denn sonst?

NOVEMBER 23, 2017 - REPORT: TRUMP TOLD RUSSIAN OFFICIALS OF ISRAELI OPERATION IN SYRIA IN MAY

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/R...a-in-May-515027

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Natuerlich. Insbesondere die letzten zwei Saetze:

"Netanyahu told reporters that "intelligence cooperation is terrific, never been better."

und

"The Vanity Fair report sheds new light on the details of the meeting."

Das besagte "new light" ist der von mir eingestellte Artikel.

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Ich kann nicht erkennen, was an der Offenbarung dieser Begebenheit/Vorkommnis (Israeli-operation) Trumps gegenüber russischen Diplomaten so gravierend und welcher greifbare Schaden dadurch entstanden sein soll?

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2790

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2789

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2788

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2787

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

---

Sie werden die Nachricht gelesen haben, was denn sonst?

NOVEMBER 23, 2017 - REPORT: TRUMP TOLD RUSSIAN OFFICIALS OF ISRAELI OPERATION IN SYRIA IN MAY

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/R...a-in-May-515027

---

Natuerlich. Insbesondere die letzten zwei Saetze:

"Netanyahu told reporters that "intelligence cooperation is terrific, never been better."

und

"The Vanity Fair report sheds new light on the details of the meeting."

Das besagte "new light" ist der von mir eingestellte Artikel.

---

Ich kann nicht erkennen, was an der Offenbarung dieser Begebenheit/Vorkommnis (Israeli-operation) Trumps gegenüber russischen Diplomaten so gravierend und welcher greifbare Schaden dadurch entstanden sein soll?

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Das ist genauso verstaendlich wie das Fragezeichen hinter der Feststellung.

Haben sie veielleicht den Artikel nicht in Gaenze gelesen?
Hier:
"... But ultimately it is the actions of men, not their motives, that propel history forward. And the president’s reckless disclosure continues to wreak havoc. On one level, the greatest casualty was trust. The president was already waging a perilous verbal war with the U.S. intelligence agencies. His sharing secrets with the Russians has very likely ground whatever remnants of a working relationship had survived into irreparable pieces. “How can the agency continue to provide the White House with intel,” challenged one former operative, “without wondering where it will wind up?” And he added ominously, “Those leaks to The New York Times and The Washington Post about the investigations into Trump and his cohorts is no accident. Trust me: you don’t want to get into a pissing match with a bunch of spooks. This is war.”

And what about America’s vital intelligence relationships with its allies? Former C.I.A. deputy director Michael Morell publicly worried, “Third countries who provide the United States with intelligence information will now have pause.”

In Israel, though, the mood is more than merely wary. “Mr. Netanyahu’s intelligence chiefs . . . are up in arms,” a prominent Israeli journalist insisted in The New York Times. In recent interviews with Israeli intelligence sources the frequently used operative verb was “whiten”—as in “certain units from now on will whiten their reports before passing them on to agencies in America.”

What further exacerbates Israel’s concerns—“keeps me up at night” was how a government spymaster put it—is that if Trump is handing over Israel’s secrets to the Russians, then he just might as well be delivering them to Iran, Russia’s current regional ally. And it is an expansionist Iran, one Israeli after another was determined to point out in the course of discussions, that is arming Hez­bol­lah with sophisticated rockets and weaponry while at the same time becoming an increasingly visible economic and military presence in Syria.

“Trump betrayed us,” said a senior Israeli military official bluntly, his voice stern with reproach. “And if we can’t trust him, then we’re going to have to do what is necessary on our own if our back is up against the wall with Iran.” Yet while appalled governments are now forced to rethink their tactics in future dealings with a wayward president, there is also the dismaying possibility that a more tangible, and more lethal, consequence has already occurred. “The Russians will undoubtedly try to figure out the source or the method of this information to make sure that it is not also collecting on their activities in Syria—and in trying to do that they could well disrupt the source,” said Michael Morell.

What, then, was the fate of Israel’s agent in Syria? Was the operative exfiltrated to safety? Has he gone to ground in enemy territory? Or was he hunted down and killed? One former Mossad officer with knowledge of the operation and its aftermath will not say. Except to add pointedly, “Whatever happened to him, it’s a hell of price to pay for a president’s mistake.”

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2791

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2790

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2789

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2788

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2787

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

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Sie werden die Nachricht gelesen haben, was denn sonst?

NOVEMBER 23, 2017 - REPORT: TRUMP TOLD RUSSIAN OFFICIALS OF ISRAELI OPERATION IN SYRIA IN MAY

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/R...a-in-May-515027

---

Natuerlich. Insbesondere die letzten zwei Saetze:

"Netanyahu told reporters that "intelligence cooperation is terrific, never been better."

und

"The Vanity Fair report sheds new light on the details of the meeting."

Das besagte "new light" ist der von mir eingestellte Artikel.

---

Ich kann nicht erkennen, was an der Offenbarung dieser Begebenheit/Vorkommnis (Israeli-operation) Trumps gegenüber russischen Diplomaten so gravierend und welcher greifbare Schaden dadurch entstanden sein soll?

---

Das ist genauso verstaendlich wie das Fragezeichen hinter der Feststellung.

Haben sie veielleicht den Artikel nicht in Gaenze gelesen?
Hier:
"... But ultimately it is the actions of men, not their motives, that propel history forward. And the president’s reckless disclosure continues to wreak havoc. On one level, the greatest casualty was trust. The president was already waging a perilous verbal war with the U.S. intelligence agencies. His sharing secrets with the Russians has very likely ground whatever remnants of a working relationship had survived into irreparable pieces. “How can the agency continue to provide the White House with intel,” challenged one former operative, “without wondering where it will wind up?” And he added ominously, “Those leaks to The New York Times and The Washington Post about the investigations into Trump and his cohorts is no accident. Trust me: you don’t want to get into a pissing match with a bunch of spooks. This is war.”

And what about America’s vital intelligence relationships with its allies? Former C.I.A. deputy director Michael Morell publicly worried, “Third countries who provide the United States with intelligence information will now have pause.”

In Israel, though, the mood is more than merely wary. “Mr. Netanyahu’s intelligence chiefs . . . are up in arms,” a prominent Israeli journalist insisted in The New York Times. In recent interviews with Israeli intelligence sources the frequently used operative verb was “whiten”—as in “certain units from now on will whiten their reports before passing them on to agencies in America.”

What further exacerbates Israel’s concerns—“keeps me up at night” was how a government spymaster put it—is that if Trump is handing over Israel’s secrets to the Russians, then he just might as well be delivering them to Iran, Russia’s current regional ally. And it is an expansionist Iran, one Israeli after another was determined to point out in the course of discussions, that is arming Hez­bol­lah with sophisticated rockets and weaponry while at the same time becoming an increasingly visible economic and military presence in Syria.

“Trump betrayed us,” said a senior Israeli military official bluntly, his voice stern with reproach. “And if we can’t trust him, then we’re going to have to do what is necessary on our own if our back is up against the wall with Iran.” Yet while appalled governments are now forced to rethink their tactics in future dealings with a wayward president, there is also the dismaying possibility that a more tangible, and more lethal, consequence has already occurred. “The Russians will undoubtedly try to figure out the source or the method of this information to make sure that it is not also collecting on their activities in Syria—and in trying to do that they could well disrupt the source,” said Michael Morell.

What, then, was the fate of Israel’s agent in Syria? Was the operative exfiltrated to safety? Has he gone to ground in enemy territory? Or was he hunted down and killed? One former Mossad officer with knowledge of the operation and its aftermath will not say. Except to add pointedly, “Whatever happened to him, it’s a hell of price to pay for a president’s mistake.”

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Sicher fügt sich das in das Bild von Trump, nur dieses Bild setzt sich aus sehr vielen Facetten zusammen und dieser Vorgang ist nur ein weiteres aber kleines Puzzle, ohne besondere Bedeutung an und für sich. Unter den Skandalen, Infamitäten und Lügen, die Trump auszeichnen war das nur eine Petitesse am Rande. Der Schaden für die USA und in diesem Fall vor allen Dingen Israel, hält sich sehr in Grenzen. Dass Israels Sicherheitsorgane auch hinter feindlichen Linien operieren ist bekannt. Was aber ins Auge sticht, ist die Tatsache, dass Israel den IS nicht nur auf dem Sinai bekämpft, sondern auch in der Levante und zwar mit gezielten und konzentrierten Eingriffen mit beachtlichen Resultaten, wie in dem Artikel beschrieben.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-19...se-war-spending

Top NSA Whistleblower Claims "Russiagate" A Fake To Increase War-Spending

U.S. will no longer fund Syrian Kurds after months of objection from Turkey
Erdogan got the news in a phone call from Trump, who did not brief American reporters.

In the phone call, Trump agreed to stop supplying arms to Syrian Kurdish fighters, the Associated Press reported, citing Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who was in the room at the time.
In a later press conference, Cavusoglu said, “Mr. Trump clearly stated that he had given clear instructions and that the YPG won’t be given arms, and that this nonsense should have ended a long time ago.”

The AP reported that there was no comment from the White House, Pentagon, or State Department, and that several anonymous officials who work on Syria policy were caught off guard by the decision. By late morning, the White House still had not briefed reporters on the topics discussed during the call, according to CNN reporter Rebecca Berg.

Recently, Russia entered the leadership vacuum left by American diplomacy in Syria, working with Turkey and Iran to determine the battered country’s future. Erdogan recently participated in talks with Russia and Iran about a peaceful settlement in Syria.
https://thinkprogress.org/turkey-call-tr...s-57647a766998/

A Split From Trump Indicates That Flynn Is Moving to Cooperate With Mueller
Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, notified the president’s legal team in recent days that they could no longer discuss the special counsel’s investigation, according to four people involved in the case — an indication that Mr. Flynn is cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/po...ssia-trump.html


If Flynn Is Cooperating With Mueller, Then Case Against Trump Gets Much More Serious
The break-up with the president's legal team suggests a turning point in the Russia investigation, especially if Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-michael...ch-more-serious


Michael Flynn cuts ties with Trump’s lawyers and may be ready to make a deal
Experts claim it's bad news for the president.
https://thinkprogress.org/flynn-cuts-tie...s-a434bd07cdbb/

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2792

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2791

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2790

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2789

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2788

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2787

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2785

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TRUMP REALLY TOLD KISLYAK AFTER COMEY WAS CANNED
During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov. This is what he told them—and the ramifications.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ein recht langer Artikel, aber dafuer auch lesenswert. Besonders fuer die israelischen Trumpsky Fans. Die ihn genau deswegen wohl nicht lesen werden. Der kognitiven Dissonanz wegen. :-)

---

Sie werden die Nachricht gelesen haben, was denn sonst?

NOVEMBER 23, 2017 - REPORT: TRUMP TOLD RUSSIAN OFFICIALS OF ISRAELI OPERATION IN SYRIA IN MAY

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/R...a-in-May-515027

---

Natuerlich. Insbesondere die letzten zwei Saetze:

"Netanyahu told reporters that "intelligence cooperation is terrific, never been better."

und

"The Vanity Fair report sheds new light on the details of the meeting."

Das besagte "new light" ist der von mir eingestellte Artikel.

---

Ich kann nicht erkennen, was an der Offenbarung dieser Begebenheit/Vorkommnis (Israeli-operation) Trumps gegenüber russischen Diplomaten so gravierend und welcher greifbare Schaden dadurch entstanden sein soll?

---

Das ist genauso verstaendlich wie das Fragezeichen hinter der Feststellung.

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"... But ultimately it is the actions of men, not their motives, that propel history forward. And the president’s reckless disclosure continues to wreak havoc. On one level, the greatest casualty was trust. The president was already waging a perilous verbal war with the U.S. intelligence agencies. His sharing secrets with the Russians has very likely ground whatever remnants of a working relationship had survived into irreparable pieces. “How can the agency continue to provide the White House with intel,” challenged one former operative, “without wondering where it will wind up?” And he added ominously, “Those leaks to The New York Times and The Washington Post about the investigations into Trump and his cohorts is no accident. Trust me: you don’t want to get into a pissing match with a bunch of spooks. This is war.”

And what about America’s vital intelligence relationships with its allies? Former C.I.A. deputy director Michael Morell publicly worried, “Third countries who provide the United States with intelligence information will now have pause.”

In Israel, though, the mood is more than merely wary. “Mr. Netanyahu’s intelligence chiefs . . . are up in arms,” a prominent Israeli journalist insisted in The New York Times. In recent interviews with Israeli intelligence sources the frequently used operative verb was “whiten”—as in “certain units from now on will whiten their reports before passing them on to agencies in America.”

What further exacerbates Israel’s concerns—“keeps me up at night” was how a government spymaster put it—is that if Trump is handing over Israel’s secrets to the Russians, then he just might as well be delivering them to Iran, Russia’s current regional ally. And it is an expansionist Iran, one Israeli after another was determined to point out in the course of discussions, that is arming Hez­bol­lah with sophisticated rockets and weaponry while at the same time becoming an increasingly visible economic and military presence in Syria.

“Trump betrayed us,” said a senior Israeli military official bluntly, his voice stern with reproach. “And if we can’t trust him, then we’re going to have to do what is necessary on our own if our back is up against the wall with Iran.” Yet while appalled governments are now forced to rethink their tactics in future dealings with a wayward president, there is also the dismaying possibility that a more tangible, and more lethal, consequence has already occurred. “The Russians will undoubtedly try to figure out the source or the method of this information to make sure that it is not also collecting on their activities in Syria—and in trying to do that they could well disrupt the source,” said Michael Morell.

What, then, was the fate of Israel’s agent in Syria? Was the operative exfiltrated to safety? Has he gone to ground in enemy territory? Or was he hunted down and killed? One former Mossad officer with knowledge of the operation and its aftermath will not say. Except to add pointedly, “Whatever happened to him, it’s a hell of price to pay for a president’s mistake.”

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Sicher fügt sich das in das Bild von Trump, nur dieses Bild setzt sich aus sehr vielen Facetten zusammen und dieser Vorgang ist nur ein weiteres aber kleines Puzzle, ohne besondere Bedeutung an und für sich. Unter den Skandalen, Infamitäten und Lügen, die Trump auszeichnen war das nur eine Petitesse am Rande. Der Schaden für die USA und in diesem Fall vor allen Dingen Israel, hält sich sehr in Grenzen. Dass Israels Sicherheitsorgane auch hinter feindlichen Linien operieren ist bekannt. Was aber ins Auge sticht, ist die Tatsache, dass Israel den IS nicht nur auf dem Sinai bekämpft, sondern auch in der Levante und zwar mit gezielten und konzentrierten Eingriffen mit beachtlichen Resultaten, wie in dem Artikel beschrieben.

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Fuer Israel ist ISIS eine nachgeordnete Bedrohung. War es schon immer. Und heute noch viel viel mehr als zuvor.

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Trump-Schwiegersohn Jared Kushner

Der Absturz von "Mr Perfect"

Auch soll Trump seinen Schwiegersohn für die schwerste Krise seiner Amtszeit mitverantwortlich machen, die Berufung des Russland-Sonderermittlers Robert Mueller. Die Ironie: Mueller nimmt sich nun zusehends auch Kushner vor. Denn der hatte im Wahlkampf offenbar viel weitreichendere - und folgenschwerere - Kontakte zu Moskau, als er später einräumte. Bei seiner Sicherheitsprüfung fürs Weiße Haus "vergaß" er, mehr als hundert dieser Treffen anzugeben.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ja...-a-1180419.html

Trumps Aufstieg an die Macht´war fulminant, sein Abstieg wird nicht weniger spektakulär vonstatten gehen. Zu erwarten ist die größte Reality-Soap aller Zeiten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB16b0zNoN0

Er lässt kein Fettnäpfchen aus. :-)

Trump Is Selling New Merchandise Made in China and Bangladesh
The Trump Organization is at it again, making a buck off the president’s name and buying from overseas.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-s...-and-bangladesh

America is in crisis. The Republican tax plan will make that worse
Steven Greenhouse
The plan would comfort the already very comfortable and further afflict many of the afflicted – all while causing the national debt to soar
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...blican-tax-plan