Top Intel Dem: Trump ‘Appears’ To Have Blabbed About Classified CIA Breach

UNITED STATES - MARCH 2: Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., right, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visito... UNITED STATES - MARCH 2: Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., right, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a briefing with FBI Director James Comey about Russia, March 2, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee alleged Thursday that President Donald Trump may have divulged classified information when he said in an interview that “the CIA was hacked, and a lot of things taken.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tweeted that Trump, in his “effort to again blame Obama … appears to have discussed something that, if true and accurate, would otherwise be considered classified information.”

“For anyone else to do what the President may have done, would constitute what he deplores as leaks,” Schiff’s statement concluded.

Trump’s comment came seemingly apropos of nothing in an interview that aired Wednesday night with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, during a discussion of his charge that former President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower. Trump has still offered no evidence for that claim.

“And by the way, with the CIA, I just want people to know, the CIA was hacked and a lot of things taken,” Trump told Carlson. “That was during the Obama years. That was not during us. That was during the Obama situation. Mike Pompeo is there now doing a fantastic job now.”

WikiLeaks last week published thousands of documents that it said came from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence.

“It is our policy as a government not to confirm the authenticity of any kind of disclosure or hack. That would be highly inappropriate for us,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said of WikiLeaks’ document dump, adding: “But all of these occurred under the last administration – that is important. All of these alleged issues.”

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  1. Trump will never, ever regain the trust of the IC. And that means that they will use the intel they have to take him down.

    Prediction: he does not finish first term.

  2. I think the sacred confines of a Tucker Carlson interview washes away any sin, don’t you?

  3. Yeah…we only leak classified crap that shows how BAD Obama was…otherwise, it’s ALL good.

  4. Doesn’t anyone in this country have the balls to slam this guy over a desk,handcuff him and put him jail where he belongs??
    Charges???
    Just 1 will do.
    Enemy of The United States of America

    Guantanamo is looking to fill a few cages

  5. What do they say, “Politics stops at the atmosphere’s edge”?

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