Avalanche of Leaks Hurting National Security [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 9 July 2017 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

A report just issued by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reveals that the rate of leaks of classified documents since the start of the Trump Administration is seven times higher than during either of the two prior administrations.

Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc) called the leaks "extremely concerning. Divulging classified material undermines our nation's ability to gather and use intelligence data. Federal employees entrusted with classified information are not authorized to decide on their own to leak this information to the media. If they have information they feel they have to impart outside the chain-of-command within the executive branch it is their legal obligation to impart this information to Congress."

Johnson forwarded the report to the Department of Justice and "left it for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to decide whether any of these leaks warrant criminal prosecution."

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) characterized the report and the referral as "part of a pattern of intimidation being carried out by the Republicans. The fact of the matter is that there has never been a greater need for leaks than there is now. The members of the intelligence community are answering to a higher moral authority and shouldn't be punished for breaking laws that should be broken given the dire straights in which the election of Trump has placed this country."

CNN's Chris Cuomo called Johnson's actions "chilling. Trump is a whole different animal than either Bush or Obama. They understood the need for continuity of policy and governance. Trump has threatened this continuity by proposing to negotiate new and better deals with this nation's adversaries. Rather than slavishly yield to the temporary ascendancy of a heretical outsider as president these deep-state patriots are doing the dirty work they've been trained to do when the wrong person is in charge."

Former Obama Administration Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates blamed Trump for the leaks, saying that "Trump's refusal to admit he colluded with Russia to rig the election forced members of the intelligence community to take the law into their own hands. For them to do otherwise would allow the 'liar-in-chief' an unimpeded path to run the country the way he sees fit."

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[CyberAnt]

It’s a simple solution .. GET RID OF ALL THE OBAMA HOLDOVERS .. BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD TO EXPOSE EVERYTHING TRUMP IS DOING.

And guess who is leading that .. none other than the FORMER PRESIDENT HIMSELF - OBAMA - MEANING HE HAS JUST COMMITTED “SUBVERSION” OF HIS OWN GOVT.

DemocRATS who support this need to be purged from the government - since they have now proven they are not capable of governing.