Politics Trump's loose lips may get spy killed

[Denny Crane]

Compromising an ally's bomb count isn't a great look, but compromising the safety of a human intelligence asset who is in the field is another thing entirely.

Oh my.

https://www.usnews.com/news/article...on-their-backs-seal-team-6-family-members-say

 

[Nikolokolus]

@Denny Crane do you think I was an Obama supporter? I certainly had issues with the previous president and now I have even deeper concerns about the current one.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Ummmm, why do I always have to be the one to ask the obvious?

Is spy dead?
Is spy still there?

If the answer to the first is no, and the second yes Trump isn't at fault if he dies.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Unless of course he orders the spy kept in place.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Ummmm, why do I always have to be the one to ask the obvious?

Is spy dead?
Is spy still there?

If the answer to the first is no, and the second yes Trump isn't at fault if he dies.

We'll never know unless whomever he is spying on makes a public show of his capture/torture/execution.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

We'll never know unless whomever he is spying on makes a public show of his capture/torture/execution.

If he is still alive, not captured and they can remove him it isn't on trump if they keep him there past the first opportunity to get him out. Unless as I said, Trump makes him stay.

 

[Nikolokolus]

If he is still alive, not captured and they can remove him it isn't on trump if they keep him there past the first opportunity to get him out. Unless as I said, Trump makes him stay.

The point is that he endangered the asset because of his carelessness.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

The point is that he endangered the asset because of his carelessness.

The title is "loose lips may get spy killed"

Should have been "loose lips COULD have gotten spy killed" at the very most.

 

[MARIS61]

Yes Denny, but what about the actual act of giving away secrets that might get an ally's asset killed? This is not defensible.

Here's a fun counterfactual: what would your response have been if this was Obama or Clinton?

Obama actually did that. On purpose.

 

[Denny Crane]

@Denny Crane do you think I was an Obama supporter? I certainly had issues with the previous president and now I have even deeper concerns about the current one.

No, I don't think you were an Obama supporter.

My point in bringing these things up are that nobody freaked (call for immediate impeachment!) when he did the same things.

It also speaks to precedent.

And the media is making mountains out of molehills OR it covered up Obama's malfeasances.

 

[riverman]

My point in bringing these things up are that nobody freaked (call for immediate impeachment!) when he did the same things.

Half of the S2 OT forum did freak out and call for prison terms, impeachment, etc......unless we consider forum members nobody which is a possibility

 

[Denny Crane]

Half of the S2 OT forum did freak out and call for prison terms, impeachment, etc......unless we consider forum members nobody which is a possibility

Media.