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Trump conducts his own sting operation to ensnare intelligence briefers – and says he caught them
The Daily Mail ^ | January 11th, 2017 | By Geoff Earle

Posted on 01/11/2017 5:53:13 PM PST by Mariner

President-elect Donald Trump, after growing suspicious that intelligence officials were leaking news about their classified briefings with him, says he conducted a sting operation to try to prove top spies were behind the leaks.

Trump revealed the extraordinary scheme to try to entrap the senior spies in a furious press conference where he suggested the intelligence community had been behind salacious and totally unproven allegations against him.

‘I think it’s pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press. First of all, it’s illegal. These are classified and certified meetings and reports,’ Trump said during a press conference at Trump Tower – his first since getting elected.

Then he revealed the details of the stealthy sting he says he conducted on the nation’s senior spooks.

‘I’ll tell you what does happen. I have many meetings with intelligence. And every time I meet, people are reading about it,' Trump complained, possibly referencing reports on his classified briefings, which he has chosen not to receive daily. President-elect Donald Trump said he set a trap for his intelligence briefers and that they fell for it by leaking word of a classified briefing he had with them

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: braking; brennan; briefings; intelligence; johnbrennan; leakers; leaks; muslim; muslimconvert; searchworks; trump; trumpintelsting; trumpsmear
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To: Mariner

Old saying. 3 people can keep a secret as long as 2 of them are dead. Trump gets it. Go Trump.


21 posted on 01/11/2017 6:09:14 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Rapscallion

If not treason, which requires a foreign government collusion, certainly sedition and conspiracy to overthrow the United States.

50 years hard labor and no parole.


22 posted on 01/11/2017 6:11:21 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: gaijin

Barbecue these Asshats, Trump.

Best Election EVER!


23 posted on 01/11/2017 6:11:24 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Mariner

And I hope Trump and his new attorney general Sessions prosecutes everyone of them.


24 posted on 01/11/2017 6:13:46 PM PST by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp: Replace Ryan & McConnell; Primary Lyn' Ted and others.)
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To: Mariner
A nation that doesn't hang its traitors will end up ruled by them.

Drain the swamp!

8 14 42 55

25 posted on 01/11/2017 6:15:49 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: Mariner

This was awesome when he told this story. Trump is going to hold these people accountable.


26 posted on 01/11/2017 6:16:22 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: Mariner
Gee, I wonder if CNN or any other American news outlet is covering this.

The most significant problem with our "news" services is that they won't cover any story which is damaging to them or Liberal policies. There needs to be a means of forcing those people who use the public airwaves to cover information they don't want to cover, because the people's "right to know" includes a right to know about them and their political allies.

We’ll have to wait for Breitbart tomorrow...

I really hope Trump did bait them and catch them with a trick. I've read about this tactic used by governments to catch leakers. Basically they plant different false stories with a series of individuals, and whichever false stories get leaked, thereby identifies the leaker.

If true, Bravo Mr. Trump. Bravo.

27 posted on 01/11/2017 6:18:02 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Mariner

Trump crews practicing for Operation D.C.

28 posted on 01/11/2017 6:18:11 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Rapscallion
McCain must resign.


29 posted on 01/11/2017 6:20:33 PM PST by Pic7
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To: dowcaet
--Holy Cripes! How old is Brennan? He looks like he should have been put out to pasture years ago.

Whoever the embalmer is, did an amazing job.

30 posted on 01/11/2017 6:27:49 PM PST by JPG (TRUMP WINS!!)
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To: Mariner

As I am reading this, all I see that is being leaked is the fact that DJT received an intelligence briefing. That is not in itself, classified. Am I missing something?


31 posted on 01/11/2017 6:29:11 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: entropy12
John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam had this to say about McCain:

{ Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in." }

Colonel Dramsi on John McCain

32 posted on 01/11/2017 6:30:01 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: gaijin

Why does that guy make me think he looks like a Dick Tracy villain?


33 posted on 01/11/2017 6:32:19 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: Mariner

It’s pretty awful when a president cannot trust his intelligence community

For everyone


34 posted on 01/11/2017 6:32:58 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: gaijin

That Brennan is one evil looking dude. So is McCain by the way. Evil just seems to exude from them. Yuk.


35 posted on 01/11/2017 6:33:30 PM PST by TrueFact (Can't wait until the swamp is done drained!)
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To: TigersEye

That’s right. Same thing when a legitimate sovereign country refuses to secure it’s lawful borders, will itself eventually become illegitimate.


36 posted on 01/11/2017 6:35:41 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: silverleaf

Fear not. Trump will root out the political hacks or reassign them to
collect Intel in Allepo.


37 posted on 01/11/2017 6:36:16 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Pic7

Brennan stamping visa of hijackers is a new story for me.

Thanx for posting


38 posted on 01/11/2017 6:36:17 PM PST by thinden
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To: Salvavida

The content dossier of the brief was leaked, even though that particular content was not presented to Trump.


39 posted on 01/11/2017 6:40:49 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

“Gee, I wonder if CNN or any other American news outlet is covering this.”

As far as I can tell, the Daily Mail is the ONLY media outlet reporting this tidbit from President Trump’s presser today!


40 posted on 01/11/2017 6:41:41 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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