The Leaky White House

[silverscreenselect]

I usually don't post stories from partisan sites, but there's a lot of food for thought here. Yes, the usual suspects will dismiss this as Fake News, but it definitely appears that there's a number of people more than willing to talk to mainstream media sources about some inner details of what's going on with Trump (and it's not very good, albeit not very surprising either). The question arises, if Trump can't keep a lid on leaks when the only stuff that's he doing is fairly routine, what's going to happen when there's some really important matters going on.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no- ... -until-now

[jarnon]

Leaks in the White House are a continual problem. Even Jimmy Carter left a note for Ronald Reagan identifying the alleged culprit:

[Pastor Fireball]

Not the first time this month that the word "leak" has been associated with King Donald of Orange.

[silverscreenselect]

In the last 24 hours, the press has published stories detailing phone calls between Trump and the Mexican president and the Australian prime minister, as well as internal memos regarding the botched Special Forces raid in Yemen. None of these were very favorable to Trump. In all fairness, (a) only a section of the transcript of the call with the Mexican president was leaked, so Trump's comments might have been taken out of the entire context of the call (both nations' official releases about the call were the usual "cordial and productive" stuff, and (b) the analysis of the Yemen raid, which blamed Trump for going ahead without sufficiently considering available intelligence might have been a case of the military trying to pass the buck for a poorly planned operation.

Still, three major leaks in one day about the type of information that is rarely released to the press (for good reason) shows some major problems with Trump insiders, a fair number of whom seem to have Flock's "fake news" organizations like Reuters and the Washington Post on speed dial.