As Nixon told David Frost:
When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal
I've heard discussions lately that the Constitution is set up with safeguards and checks but there is a big hole basically when it comes to the powers and options open to the person who is the president. It seems as if we have relied on norms and customs and the good intentions of whoever is in that office but we have crossed into new territory with this one. He has no concept of so many things having to do with the government and history in general. It is a dangerous situation. Now he's jeopardized intelligence from some other country. How much damage is he going to do?
The president’s disclosures to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in their Oval Office meeting last week jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State — an information-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, current and former U.S. officials said. Trump appeared to be boasting of the “great intel” he receives when he described a looming terror threat, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.
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When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal
I've heard discussions lately that the Constitution is set up with safeguards and checks but there is a big hole basically when it comes to the powers and options open to the person who is the president. It seems as if we have relied on norms and customs and the good intentions of whoever is in that office but we have crossed into new territory with this one. He has no concept of so many things having to do with the government and history in general. It is a dangerous situation. Now he's jeopardized intelligence from some other country. How much damage is he going to do?
The president’s disclosures to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in their Oval Office meeting last week jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State — an information-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, current and former U.S. officials said. Trump appeared to be boasting of the “great intel” he receives when he described a looming terror threat, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.
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