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Benjamin Pauker @benpaukerEXCLUSIVE: Trump planning retaliation for leaks -- ludicrous revenge plan targeting Obama administration.
Trumps inner circle is war-gaming how best to respond to the Washington Posts bombshell report that he shared classified intelligence with the Russians about an Islamic State plot, sensitive information reportedly passed to the United States by Israel.
One option under consideration? Attack former President Barack Obama and his administration over their handling of sensitive data, in particular through one information-sharing program regarding cybersecurity threats.
According to a source with knowledge of a White House meeting that took place Wednesday morning, Trumps team is considering launching an investigation into a Department of Homeland Security program that shares information on cyberattacks in an effort to coordinate globally on countering digital threats, insinuating that it inappropriately opened up streams of sensitive data to Russia and other nonallies. Another option under consideration is placing a story in the media about the program, similarly accusing it of sharing sensitive information...
The information-sharing program came under fire when the system triggered false alarms about Russian cyberattacks on private company systems, including one utility company, following the governments decision to publish a list of threat indicators about Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear in its Grizzly Steppe report. That report, which contained a list of IP addresses and other identifying information about potentially malicious accounts, was prepared by the Department of Homeland Security following concerns that the Russians had been meddling in the election. The alarms arent meant to be conclusive evidence of a hack but a cause for a deeper look, the department said.
But the false positives arent the target of the Trump team. Sharing information with international partners might be used as an opportunity and excuse for finger-pointing and house-cleaning at the Department of Homeland Security, the source with knowledge of the meeting said. Members of Trumps inner circle are apparently angry with the department for refusing to share certain classified information with White House staffers, because they lack proper clearances a roadblock the White House insists doesnt exist, because it has the presidents signoff...
read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/18/trump-team-planning-possible-retaliation-for-classified-leak-allegations/
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)That's so bogus. These Trumps are total idiots.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)You can fool a bunch of Deplorables with it, and the Republicans in Congress may use it as a political tool, but you won't hear a word of it in a court of law.
And that's where all this is headed.
lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)Honestly, how does the gop keep swallowing this tripe?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)their anger with Homeland Security? It has to be a way to get at the classified info that Putin told tRump to get his hands on.
marybourg
(12,622 posts)"I believe it hurts our country terribly, because it shows we're a divided, mixed-up, not-unified country, . . . . "And we have very important things to be doing right now, whether it's trade deals, whether it's military, whether it's stopping nuclear all of the things that we discussed today. And I think this shows a very divided country"
wishstar
(5,268 posts)Obama's Deep State plotting against him and wiretapping him plus Susan Rice unmasking and leaking to harm him- all obvious fabrications manufactured to take attention away from criticism of Trump while bolstering his brainwashed base when the garbage is spread around rightwing media.