US Politics - Trump cancels summit having to do with North Korea

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:

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Rex Kramer wrote:I'm amazed Trump's twitter account hasn't been hacked by now, he seems a prime candidate for a phishing scam.

He was still using an unsecured phone to Tweet from, last I checked (shades of Hillary's Blackberries...). How hasn't it been hacked?!

Putin would be angry if anyone hacked Trumps phone so why would anyone want that?

He probably got there first TBH.

Peter Crisp wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Rex Kramer wrote:I'm amazed Trump's twitter account hasn't been hacked by now, he seems a prime candidate for a phishing scam.

He was still using an unsecured phone to Tweet from, last I checked (shades of Hillary's Blackberries...). How hasn't it been hacked?!

Putin would be angry if anyone hacked Trumps phone so why would anyone want that?

He probably got there first TBH.

Putin doesn't need to hack into Trumps phone he's already hacked into his heart.

Two of Moscow’s top cybersecurity officials are facing treason charges for cooperating with the CIA, according to a Russian news report.

The accusations add further intrigue to a mysterious scandal that has had the Moscow rumour mill working in overdrive for the past week, and come not long after US intelligence accused Russia of interfering in the US election and hacking the Democratic party’s servers.

Sergei Mikhailov was deputy head of the FSB security agency’s Centre for Information Security. His arrest was reported in a series of leaks over the past week, along with that of his deputy and several civilians, but Tuesday’s news went much further.

“Sergei Mikhailov and his deputy, Dmitry Dokuchayev, are accused of betraying their oath and working with the CIA,” Interfax said, quoting a source familiar with the investigation.

It is unlikely the news agency would have published the story without official sanction, though this does not necessarily mean the information is true.

The story did not make it clear whether the pair were accused of being CIA agents or merely passing on information through intermediaries.

A Senate committee has approved Donald Trump's nominees for the treasury and health departments without Democrats present after the Republican Party changed panel's rule

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"Almost everything went wrong," a senior US military official told NBC News of the operation, which was the first clandestine strike approved by President Donald Trump.

The operation was launched to gather intelligence on suspected operations by al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula (AQAP), according to Colonel John Thomas, a spokesman for US Central Command. Planning for the raid “started months before”, under Barack Obama’s administration, but was “not previously approved”, he said.

Thomas said he did not know why the prior administration did not authorize the operation, but said the Obama administration had effectively exercised a “pocket veto” over it.

“The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,”

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Irene Demova wrote:The first military action Trump okayed lead to the deaths of one of the SEALs involved and the daughter of an Al Qaeda member who was 8 years old and an American citizen. So it's free propaganda for them.
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"Almost everything went wrong," a senior US military official told NBC News of the operation, which was the first clandestine strike approved by President Donald Trump.

And now it's been discovered that Obama had previously blocked the plan from being executed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/yemen-strike-eight-year-old-american-girl-killed-al-awlaki

The operation was launched to gather intelligence on suspected operations by al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula (AQAP), according to Colonel John Thomas, a spokesman for US Central Command. Planning for the raid “started months before”, under Barack Obama’s administration, but was “not previously approved”, he said.

Thomas said he did not know why the prior administration did not authorize the operation, but said the Obama administration had effectively exercised a “pocket veto” over it.

Total strawberry floating mess, and don't forget this Trump quote

“The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,”

AOL News wrote:Report: In a 'humiliating' and 'threatening' tone, Trump lambasted Mexico's president during phone call

During a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday, President Donald Trump reportedly disparaged Mexico and threatened to use military force against the drug trade, according to Washington, DC-based journalist Dolia Estevez.

In an interview with Mexican news outlet Aristegui Noticias, Estevez, who cited sources on both sides of the call, said "it was a very offensive conversation where Trump humiliated Peña Nieto."

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