Democrats, Republicans worry about 'alarming' leaks of Trump phone calls

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Democrats, Republicans worry about 'alarming' leaks of Trump phone calls
by Matthew Trunko | Aug 3, 2017, 2:28 PM

Democrats and Republicans on Thursday said they were worried about the leak of dozens of pages to the Washington Post detailing a phone call President Trump had with two foreign leaders.

"I am alarmed at leaks of conversations between two heads of state. It doesn't matter what I think of this president, this is terrible," said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii.

The Washington Post published full conversations that Trump had over the phone with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Jan. 27 and with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Jan. 28.

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[240B]

Priebus revenge?


It seems to be a consistent pattern that when someone is fired, significant leaks follow right after.


It seems as if some people are storing up 'revenge' stuff to leak if they are ever fired.

[HonestJohn]

For Pete's sake...

Any two-way phone call can, and likely is, recorded by both parties.

So the leak can be at the White House... or with the government whose head Trump spoke with.

And considering just how peeved Mexico is with Trump, why *WOULDN'T* they release their tape... under the table, of course.  (European countries don't particularly like him, either.)

[TomSea]

This whole thing is a sideshow, our problem has real problems and they just said on TV, all of these problems are like a "reality show", total malarky,

We need to take care of healthcare, etc.

I do get it that even when the Democrats control the executive branch, there is a bit of a reversal of roles, remember "you lie", though, I gather the Republicans gave Obama a lot of what he wanted. Very frustrating.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

For Pete's sake...

Any two-way phone call can, and likely is, recorded by both parties.

So the leak can be at the White House... or with the government whose head Trump spoke with.

And considering just how peeved Mexico is with Trump, why *WOULDN'T* they release their tape... under the table, of course.  (European countries don't particularly like him, either.)

That's a good point.

[DB]

For Pete's sake...

Any two-way phone call can, and likely is, recorded by both parties.

So the leak can be at the White House... or with the government whose head Trump spoke with.

And considering just how peeved Mexico is with Trump, why *WOULDN'T* they release their tape... under the table, of course.  (European countries don't particularly like him, either.)

There would be hell to pay if Mexico released the tape and it isn't in their interest to further piss off Trump. It also very unlikely two world leaders would leak the calls at the same time to the same new organization.

It nearly has to be someone in the White House. That person needs to see some jail time. Doing so will give the other leakers something to think about before doing it again.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

There would be hell to pay if Mexico released the tape and it isn't in their interest to further **** off Trump. It also very unlikely two world leaders would leak the calls at the same time to the same new organization.

It nearly has to be someone in the White House. That person needs to see some jail time. Doing so will give the other leakers something to think about before doing it again.

Is it illegal to leak something that isn't classified?

[DB]

Is it illegal to leak something that isn't classified?

It was classified.

[Suppressed]

There would be hell to pay if Mexico released the tape and it isn't in their interest to further piss off Trump.

Huh?  How would the White House know which end the leak was on?  And why isn't it in their interests to hurt Trump?

It nearly has to be someone in the White House.

I think that's far from certain.

That person needs to see some jail time. Doing so will give the other leakers something to think about before doing it again.

Agreed!

[Suppressed]

Priebus revenge?

Priebus is out.  The memo said the leaks have stopped.  I'll have to get you a copy.

[libertybele]

According to another article, Conway made reference to the leak coming from the West Wing.  Kushner, Bannon or McMahon would be my guess.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/04/sessions-unveiling-leak-crackdown-on-heels-transcript-bombshell.html

[Just_Victor]

Is it illegal to leak something that isn't classified?

It can be.  A great deal of info our government produces is "Sensitive But Unclassified" SBU.  It can be freely distributed within the government, but needs to be protected from foreign nationals.  One can get in trouble for failing to protect SBU info.

[DB]

Huh?  How would the White House know which end the leak was on?  And why isn't it in their interests to hurt Trump?

First, the White House has been leaking like a sieve since Trump has been in office. Second few have access to the conversation between the President and two different world leaders. Certainly not Mexico. Both conversations were leaked at the same time from apparently the same source to the same news service. All that points to the White House and/or the White House communications agency.