Trump Can’t Even Hold A Classified National Security Council Meeting Without Details Leaking To The Media – IOTW Report

Trump Can’t Even Hold A Classified National Security Council Meeting Without Details Leaking To The Media

DC: As much of the national security establishment pushes back against President Donald Trump’s calls for a swift withdrawal from Syria, officials are again leaking details of the president’s classified meetings to the media.

The president recently stated that the U.S. will be leaving Syria “very soon,” but the Pentagon, State Department, and CIA reportedly all support long-term involvement in Syria, with senior leadership expressing concerns about the ramifications of a hasty withdrawal from the war-torn country. The president became “testy” and signaled “his patience is running out” on the Syria issue during a meeting with the National Security Council at the White House Tuesday, CNN and The Associated Press, citing officials familiar with the situation but not “authorized” to discuss it, reported.

Trump has yet to publicly order the withdrawal of the roughly 2,000 American troops in Syria, but he has made his intentions clear. “I want to get out,” he said at a press conference Tuesday, adding, “I want to bring our troops back home. I want to start rebuilding our nation.” But as the president, who was elected by a population that overwhelmingly opposes greater involvement in the region, demands withdrawal, the bureaucracy is fighting to stay in Syria and apparently leaking like a sieve.

During Tuesday’s meeting, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford argued that leaving Syria early might create a power vacuum in which Russia, Turkey, and Iran could pursue their own interests at the expense of America’s national interests, an administration official told CNN. These three countries are presently meeting in Ankara to plan Syria’s future.

The same official claimed that Trump proposed a six-month timeline for withdrawal, but another leaky official refuted this assertion.  more here

11 Comments on Trump Can’t Even Hold A Classified National Security Council Meeting Without Details Leaking To The Media

  1. Someone is bugging the room. It may not be a staff problem. Someone in a position of trust, i.e. not the FBI, Secret Service, nor CIA needs to sweep the conference rooms in the White House or arrange to have the meetings in a secure location elsewhere. Something is fucked up here.

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  2. Sounds like a job for the “cone of silence” from Maxwell Smart.

    Try holding the next meeting in a fallout shelter. Build a new scaffold in DC. as a warning to any future leaders. The noose will always be looking for new customers.

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  3. It will create a power vacuum in Syria? Isn’t that just too bad. Let them all kill each other, bring our troops home from all the $&*)holes over there. And bring our equipment and weapons back with them, no more leaving Hummvees for ISIS and other assorted Neanderthals to play with.

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  4. Sweep the room for listening devices and on the person of everyone attending…even Trump. Make everyone submit to a polygraph exam every time until the culprit is caught then execute them!

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