[mandaladon]

“The absence of Mr. Pompeo and other top State Department officials left perplexed European diplomats privately complaining that they were having trouble getting answers from Washington,” Harris wrote.~~~~~~Anything to make Trump look bad...

[Political Junkie Too]

The Times story noted that Pompeo was expected to return from his trip with the detainees in the caption of a photo accompanying the story, so it's curious why the headline attempted to paint his trip in a negative light.

It's like the time when President Bush took a secret trip to Iraq in 2003 to spend Thanksgiving with the troops, and the MSM fretted over Air Force One faking its call sign during the trip.

-PJ

[Zathras]

Sounds like the last set of firings seems to have plugged a serious leak.
VP’s Dr?

[mfish13]

Looks like the New York Times again fell into a big pile of excrement.

[Wuli]

Most likely the NORKS required a person at cabinet level to make the hand off else there may not have been any release. Kim needs to show - with propaganda - how high a level of U.S. officials must kowtow to him to get our hostages released (likely labelled spies by the NORKS).

[COBOL2Java]

Trump sent the Times a box of cigars, congratulating them for their "excellence in journalism"

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!