And in this case I'm NOT talking about the Russian hacking, or possible Trump collusion, as troubling as those things are.  What concerns me in this case is the possible impact on our intelligence assets by the Post's revealing we KNOW Putin himself ordered some of the Russian efforts to disrupt the 2016 campaign. Of course, everyone assumed Putin was directly involved.  He could hardly not have been.  But to say we have intelligence that lets us say we KNOW he was suggests we (or an ally) have an asset inside Putin's office in the Kremlin, a mole, a bug, who knows?  That's great if it's true, but now the world knows about it.  Does anyone think the Russians are not now searching for that source, jeopardizing perhaps the best asset we have in the Kremlin?
Did the WaPo not think about this before revealing what they did?  If the above is correct, the Post may have damaged US security.

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and it has nothing to do with Trump.

The holy grail of intel.  The article also spoke of software we could use to infect Russian infrastructure as punishment.  Was Russia already aware of that capability?  WaPo claims to have been clearance to release what they did.

is concerning. The concerning part is what is false and what actually is fact. WAPO as of late is the leader in fake news, but if some of what they post is true than the leaks within the government are a real threat.  

1) Dear EuroTool: my post was mainly NOT about Trump.  It was about whether or not The Washington Post's story harmed US security.
2) Dear Burper: Please see above.  Also, what Obama did or did not do has ZERO to do with Putin's provable direct involvement with the Russian scheme.

And, yes, I almost included the question of the "cyber-bomb" that may or may not have been inserted into Russian servers. I'm sure they are looking for it as we speak and will scrub it out before we can use it.  Thanks, WaPo!
As for why we did nothing, the previous Administration was afraid to do anything that might be considered tampering with the election.  One of them quoted in the WaPo piece says, 'We choked."

Putin thinks our boy is a " useful idiot ".he nailed that bitch..

...an Israeli spy inside ISIS in danger?  Should Trump be "...hunted down and made an example of?"

and he nailed Obama a lot.

substantive replies from lefties.  Curious.

put at risk when she dumped her classified emails on the internet!

OK, first, I had a bet with a few friends as to when my post would bring you out so I could make a fool of you. Answer: I win the bet. So thanks.
Now, to answer your question: I have no idea what I may have posted regarding the Israeli spy inside ISIS.  Since you spend such YOOGE amounts of time searching my old posts (very flattering, BTW) I would have thought you'd already know what I said. Personally, I'm not sure I said anything.  But if I did, I would have said Trump's security breach was beyond stupid. I would love it if Trump were hunted down and made an example of. But I'd say the same thing about you, Mamasan. Happy now?

When Putin hacks some infrastructure systems.

...it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, but you really are an mangy old mutt that can't learn ANYTHING!  Try to focus those ancient eyes of yours and maybe you'll be able to see that I didn't reply to you - I replied to "balller."  I even quoted a line from his post, yet you still thought I was replying to you.

Your obsession with me has ruined whatever slight reading comprehension you had.  What I wrote was my OP would "bring you out," and it DID.  LMAO.  The rest is window-dressing.
Thus, no deflection needed for the HumanShar-Pei, who is SO easy to play.  What an embarrassment you are. Now go back and hide inside your folds of excess skin.

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From what I've read and heard, it has been known, and discussed, within the intelligence community, for awhile. Often times, it's not one person leaking something solely under their own volition, but rather an agency, as a whole, gives the green light to someone to leak it. I suspect, if this is the class, the asset is no longer in place, so they have nothing to lose in that regard. Plus, if that's the case, they may believe there is an advantage somehow in exposing Putin's role. Now, if that's not the case, then yes, I'm troubled, but I will never know one way or another. I guess I'll have to trust all players are above board in their participation. There have been numerous times where WaPo has set on a story, in order not to compromise national security. Most of which we've never heard of.

Well, EMS's response is interesting!

They sound much like the Trump surrogates, on TV.  When questioned on the story, and what we, including the president need to do to protect ourselves, they either began blaming Obama, or got defensive, claiming it had nothing to do with Trump, regarding obstruction of justice, or collusion, which no one was saying it did. It almost seemed they wanted to bring it back to the later two points, because people are beginning to get tired of those two stories. However, I suspect, that could change, in an instant, if new info is revealed.

The real collusion - which the snowflakes ignore - is when their beloved BHO whispered to his Russian seatmate, "wait until i'm re-elected. I'll have more flexibility then".  Podesta being elected to numerous Russian companies board of directors, Her highness approving the sale of 20% of US critical manufacturing material (uranium) to the Russian controlled Canadian company. Need more evidence? Trump, etc haven't come close to any of these actions to get into bed with the Rooskies.

...digging yourself a bigger hole.  But keep on digging; that way there'll be room in the hole for both you and your SPOTY trophy.

Nice diversion from the fact my Original Post was about drawing you out AND IT WORKED!  All the people I told about it knew about the OP and its purpose BEFORE IT WAS EVEN APPROVED.  And, of course, you are blatantly lying when you say they don't exist. You know they do. So here you still are, making feeble efforts to deflect from the fact that I threw you the bait and you snapped it up like a big, fat Trout.  Who cares if your actual response was to someone else?  
Gotcha!
I give you BigFatTrout, the obfuscating loser.

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But Obama DIDN'T go after him hard, in fact he has never gone after anyone hard. Even his fat ass wife. He's a pussy who believes that if you drawl enough red lines in the sand everyone will believe you are some kind of bad ass. Unfortunately everyone knows that Obama isn't though.

"Cut it Out"......scary words.  

You neglected to add that in return Hillary got huge donations to the Clinton Foundation and then Slick Willy raised his speaking fees......in Russia.  

After all, Putin does have WMD's, right? I perfect excuse!

He opened the door that let Trump in the WH.