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Oh let's be honest here Bag, he has no premise

I have a yoOOOoge premise.

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...where was all the righteous indignation and concern for national security when Hillary was exposing special access programs and hundreds of other highly classified files to at least 5 bad actor nations??

I don't recall her being president.

Even Trump tweeted that he revealed sensitive info to the Russians.....so, is his staff lying or did Trump lie to his staff?

You're wrong, and absent minded. McMaster stated firmly last night that such a conversation NEVER took place and claimed he was a witness. Today, he had to change the story.

Race to Prevent Airline Terror Turns to Laptops, Thin Bombs

The never-ending race to stay ahead of the terrorists and their obsession with aviation has turned to laptops and other electronic devices.

First it was shoes, after a failed attempt to blow up a jetliner in 2001 with explosives-laden black hightops. Then liquids were banned in 2006 following the discovery of a U.K.-based plot. The nearly successful detonation of a bomb hidden in a passenger’s underwear in 2009 prompted body scanners and aggressive patdowns.

“There’s been, for about four years now, an articulated threat that people will try to smuggle bombs in laptops,” he said.

Also driving the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are two successful bombings of aircraft in the past two years linked to smuggled explosives: a Russian charter plane in Egypt in 2015 that killed all 224 people aboard and a Somali airliner in 2016 that was able to land with a gaping hole in its side from a device hidden in a laptop.

“They’ve been building very thin explosives,” Halinski said. “They are so thin the X-ray machines can’t see them.”

While the actual intelligence hasn’t been publicly released, officials say it has convinced them they have to act.

Congressional Dems making early calls for Trump's impeachment

But one former Democratic lawmaker told Fox News that even suggesting impeachment is "dangerous" for the American people.

Dennis Kucinich, former Ohio congressman and a Fox News contributor, told Fox News on Tuesday that there was a “danger in engaging in compulsive opposition.”

“It is destructive to America to proceed with an impeachment at this stage of the presidency,” Kucinich said. “This is not the first thing you reach for, because when the first big move a party makes is towards impeachment, it’s very difficult for the American people to conclude that it is anything but a partisan issue.”

Kucinich told Fox News that while he is aware of the extreme opposition to President Trump’s policies, Democrats should focus on their ability to impact policy, which could be “attractive” to Americans in 2018.

“It’s far better to offer alternatives to the policies of this president," Kucinich said. "Otherwise, this is a grim partisan effort which inevitably will go nowhere."

President Donald Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to end an inquiry into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia, US media report.
"I hope you can let this go," Mr Trump reportedly told Mr Comey after a White House meeting in February, according to a memo written by the ex-FBI director.
The memo was written immediately after the meeting, a day after Michael Flynn resigned, according to US media.
The White House has denied the report in a statement.
"While the president has repeatedly expressed his view that General Flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the president has never asked Mr Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn," the statement read.

The relationship between this White House and the intelligence agencies hasn't been great. President Donald Trump's recent disclosures have made things worse.

National Security Adviser HR McMaster stood on a driveway outside the White House on Monday evening and tried to explain a delicate situation to journalists.

The Washington Post had reported that Trump revealed highly classified information to Russians during a meeting in the Oval Office.
Standing before reporters, Mr McMaster chose his words carefully.
His message was that the president had indeed revealed certain things - he'd spoken with the Russians about the fight against the Islamic State group, but that the president's revelations weren't as bad as you might think.

"The president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known," Mr McMaster said, trying to reassure the reporters and the American public that everything was fine.
Not long afterwards, reporters gathered in a hallway of the West Wing, hoping to find out more about what had happened.

While we were standing there, senior members of the White House staff walked quickly past us and filed into a meeting room.

One of my colleagues said he had seen Stephen Bannon, the president's senior adviser, and Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, walk into the room.
Behind closed doors, the officials started speaking in loud voices, and a moment later someone turned up the volume on a television, so that we couldn't hear what was going on inside the room.
The mood in the White House on Monday evening was tense, and things seemed slightly out of control, showing an administration that barely seemed able to manage the chaotic nature of their boss, the president.

He had - once again - talked about something he probably shouldn't have, and they were struggling to contain the fallout.
On Tuesday morning, Mr McMaster reappeared in the White House briefing room to drive home their message that Mr Trump's disclosure was "wholly appropriate".
Mr Trump's indiscretion has been particularly troubling for people who work at the CIA.
A spokesman for the CIA told me - unsurprisingly - that they had no comment about the reports.

Privately, though, many of them have been worried about President Trump.
On the day after the election, a former senior CIA official told me, the grounds of the CIA were spookily quiet.

Many of the men and women who worked at the agency were troubled by his presidency, and they wanted a chance to think things through.
The recent disclosures in the Washington Post were hardly reassuring.
The president's decision to speak so freely was "a display of recklessness", said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.

The conversation that the president had with the Russians - and the explosive article about their meeting - has been unsettling for those who are steeped in the world of intelligence analysis.
The incident, said Mr Aftergood, reflected "escalating tensions between the White House and the intelligence community".

The job of intelligence analysts is to provide the president with information and insight that he can use in order to keep the nation safe from attacks, and analysts will continue to focus on the task at hand - despite any tension in the relationship.

David Priess, author of The President's Book of Secrets, said he's lived through periods of turmoil between the White House and the intelligence agencies during the years that he spent as a CIA analyst and intelligence briefer.
Yet he and his colleagues had a near-universal response to the discord.
He said they "just put their heads down and do their work".
Still, people who are familiar with the White House and the intelligence agencies believe the incident won't cause permanent damage.

"The president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known," Mr McMaster said, trying to reassure the reporters and the American public that everything was fine.

House GOP Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers said she wants the White House to explain what happened and Comey to testify ASAP

Lash is feeling confident.

You know, Lash might have predicted it pretty much right.