Sen. Warner about declassifying intelligence: "Be careful what you wish for."

[MelissaB]

Link to tweet

Just in, per @garretthaake: Sen. @MarkWarner, who has read the documents, says of Trump's decision to declassify raw intelligence about his campaign's alleged conspiracy with Russia: "Be careful what you wish for."

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1. this has been my suspicion -- it will have something for everyone.

donnie will get ammo for his "partisan witch hunt" conspiracy theory ("people who hunt criminals hate me, so it must be political!" )

but there will also be more revealed that's very damning for donnie and his gang.



and, of course, it will likely compromise national security, methods, and sources, but since when do republicans care about that when there's are republicans criminals to keep in office....

[tblue37]

3. He could declassify selectively, though. nt

[Reader Rabbit]

5. Is he smart enough to do that, though?

It would require actually reading through the documents, or at least their summaries.

[dameatball]

21. All that will be done for him.They may let him have a bone or two on his own.

Ryan, et al, would not trust him to handle this.

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9. his order said all of it, unredacted, except for i think 5 specific pages from the fisa application.

wouldn't surprise me if the 5 pages were selected for political reasons rather than national security or legitimately personal information, but i wouldn't put it past them....

still, this seems rather crude as far as selective release of information goes, at least at the detailed, text level.

the selective release part comes in the choice of which people to have their texts released -- all people donnie hates and none of the people he likes....

[NastyRiffraff]

28. Raw intelligence is tough for even experienced analysts to decipher.

Trump reads at approximately fourth grade level. He has no idea what he's looking at.

Remember what happened with the Nunes memo. It "proved" exactly the opposite of what Nunes wanted.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[PearliePoo2]

4. That's what I heard this morning too!

A congressman said that BLOTUS hasn't read the documents or even know what's in there.

There very well may be information revealed that paints an even worse picture of the orange asshole and harms him even more politically.

I hope it blows up in his fucking face.

Let's hope so!

[NewJeffCT]

6. The problem is

that Trump is selectively releasing documents that will only paint a partial picture. If the potentially bad stuff (for Trump) is left hidden, then he can sell the picture he wants to his cult and some of the independents out there.

[lostnfound]

8. Bigger problem is Russia, and others, learning sources and methods

Adam Schiff was very concerned about it.

[ScratchCat]

11. Yes, I believe that the idea

that Trump is doing this to harm the investigation is a red herring. It has already been demonstrated that the investigation was legal, proper and founded on fact. Un-redacting info from an already released document changes none of that. I believe this is Trump doing Putin's bidding so that Russian intelligence can know the methods and techniques we used to find them and make the appropriate changes for their future/current meddling and communications.

[FakeNoose]

17. Pootie wants to know which of his guys talked

... and how Cheeto is giving it to him for free.

[gratuitous]

7. Will any of the media dare call the administration out on this?

Nakedly partisan selective declassification intended to derail an ongoing criminal investigation. 11 words, simple concept. Will the media be able to grasp this, or will we get the standard-issue "It's too complicated!" Barbie doll whine*?

*Mattel got in a bit of a jam several years ago when a talking Barbie doll they were marketing spouted phrases "Math is hard!" juxtaposed with "Let's go shopping!" They got walloped, and they deserved it.

[mopinko]

10. i hope rosentein and wray are smart enough

to dribble out some good stuff out of the gate.
let dirty don twist in the wind for a while.
maybe, oops, put something out that wasnt asked for.

hoist that fat fucker by his own petard.

[Sinistrous]

14. Picked nit ...

One is hoisted ON a petard, not BY a petard.

[3Hotdogs]

16. Is the petard mushroom shaped?

[PearliePoo2]

12. Don't forget it's Paul "Fucking" Ryan who's allowing this to happen.

As Speaker, he controls EVERY action of the House Members.

Nunes, Meadows and Jordan ran to BLOTUS and said, "Here's what we can do Mr. President!" Ryan had to sign off on it.

Constitutional Crisis, here we are.

[SHRED]

13. What's that mean?

[Ohioboy]

15. Will it be collusion

if Trump declassifies something that lets Russian intelligence in on our methods and techniques? Trump is a true security risk.

[flying_wahini]

18. Maybe Putin is driving the release of sensitive documents and this is payback. ?

[Texin]

19. Well, of course Cheetolini is going to cherry pick what doesn't get published.

But, there could be an Ooops! 'inadvertent' release of those pesky and damning details by Dems or other interested intelligence sources.

And Mark Warner's tweet actually begs the question, why don't the Dems "in the know" about those details just freakin' spill the contents since the ol' Pussy Grabber is going to throw it all out there anyway? I mean, if it's declassified.....?

[Frequency Kenneth]

20. Giving our Secrets to Putin and the Other Countries that Hate our Guts

If that's not treason, then I have obviously been misunderstanding the word all these decades.

[Pepsidog]

22. Bumblefucks the whole lot of them

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. The one thing we can be absolutely certain of is that he will not have read any of it.

If anyone around him has read any of the documents, I'm sure they are shitting bricks.

[jalan48]

24. Isn't Trump already getting a heads up about this from Nunes?

[mulsh]

25. Russian asset, serial child abuser loser don the con historically lays the rakes out carefully

before stepping on them. I'm assuming as bad at this pending release may be to our inteligence services and their sources in the end it will blow up in his face.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. This OUTRIGHT ACT OF TREASON Will be supported by 95% of the GOP.

What do we have if almost half the voting population supports our enemies over us?

[WheelWalker]

27. Revolution.

[moondust]

29. Reality Winner got 5 years in prison.

Somebody needs to compare what she did with what Donny did and figure out how many years in prison he deserves.