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Home Front: Politix
Sarah Sanders Brings Hurt To The WH Press Corps Over Porter Issue
2018-02-13
BLUF:
[Red State] MIC 🎤 DROP: @PressSec On Leaking classified info:

"If you guys have any real concerns about leaking look around this room, you guys are the ones that publish classified information and put our national security at risk"!

Exactly right.

Ultimately the White House gets to choose who works there. Not the FBI. And the sudden concern of the media, in particular the White House press corps, over publishing damaging leaks of national security information is charming in its utter duplicity.

But this is not about Porter. And it isn’t about security clearances. It is about trying to force John Kelly out of his job. All Porter and the security clearances are is a club to beat Kelly and the administration with.
Emphasis added.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  The White House decides who works in the White House. If POSTUS decides he wants to bring in OJ Simpson as his personal adviser and confidant, it's POTUS' call. OJ's clearance will be granted, I assure you. A fact which appears to be lost on many.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-13 20:52  

#6  I've heard much about The Affairs Porter, but has anyone yet attested to a police report?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-02-13 20:41  

#5  Guys are heroes when they leak the Pentagon Papers or the intel gathering methods but it is high treason when Assange leaked those damning emails of Shillary and Podesta.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-02-13 16:09  

#4  The best PRESSEC ever.
Posted by: newc   2018-02-13 15:21  

#3  Reporters, in unison: "It's A-OK when we do it!"
Posted by: magpie   2018-02-13 04:51  

#2  I dunno, mate - the White House chefs are top of the line. Keep it in house!
Posted by: Raj   2018-02-13 01:16  

#1  I'll wager Trump bought her a dinner at Morton's over that one.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-13 01:06  

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