Trump is a threat to national security

One of the key security concerns raised in DeAgazio’s posts — which have since been made private — is the proximity of smartphones to such a sensitive briefing.

As CNN notes, the patio was only lit with candles and moonlight, and so Mr Trump’s aides used the flashlights on their camera phones to help him and Mr Abe read through the documents.

Washington Post reporter Philip Bump said this was highly problematic because smartphones can be used as wiretaps.

“Phones — especially phones with their flashes turned on for improved visibility — are portable television satellite trucks and, if compromised, can be used to get a great deal of information about what’s happening nearby, unless precautions are taken,” he wrote.

A phone flashlight overlooking official documents could have had disastrous consequences if the device was hacked, as the camera would be bearing down straight onto them.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-14/michael-flynn-resigns-donald-trump-national-security-adviser/8269402

Donald Trump's embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned after reports he misled administration officials about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to the US.

Mr Flynn's departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the US President's senior team of advisers.

In his resignation letter, Mr Flynn said he held numerous calls with the Russian ambassador during the transition and gave "incomplete information" about those discussions to Vice-President Mike Pence.

"In the course of my duties as the incoming national security adviser, I held numerous phone calls with foreign counterparts, ministers and ambassadors," Mr Flynn said in his resignation letter.

"These calls were to facilitate a smooth transition and begin to build the necessary relationships between the President, his advisers and foreign leaders.

"Such calls are standard practice in any transition of this magnitude.

He is selling your nation out to the commies either on purpose of through incompetence.

veya_victaous wrote:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-14/michael-flynn-resigns-donald-trump-national-security-adviser/8269402

Donald Trump's embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned after reports he misled administration officials about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to the US.

Mr Flynn's departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the US President's senior team of advisers.

In his resignation letter, Mr Flynn said he held numerous calls with the Russian ambassador during the transition and gave "incomplete information" about those discussions to Vice-President Mike Pence.

"In the course of my duties as the incoming national security adviser, I held numerous phone calls with foreign counterparts, ministers and ambassadors," Mr Flynn said in his resignation letter.

"These calls were to facilitate a smooth transition and begin to build the necessary relationships between the President, his advisers and foreign leaders.

"Such calls are standard practice in any transition of this magnitude.

and his 'security advisor' has had to resign over unlawful discussion with Russia.

How much more of America's  Putin are patriots going to put up with???
He is selling your nation out to the commies either on purpose of through incompetence.

RUSSIAN politicians have defended President Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn who resigned over his contacts with Russia, saying it was “something worse” than paranoia which drove the decision.

Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, said in a post on Facebook that firing a national security adviser for his contacts with Russia is “not just paranoia but something even worse.”

Kosachev’s counterpart at the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, Alexei Pushkov, tweeted shortly after the announcement that “it was not Flynn who was targeted but relations with Russia.”

Mr Flynn resigned on Monday night conceding he gave “incomplete information” about his phone calls with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. It follows reports he could become a target of Russian blackmail.

The US Army is also reportedly investigating whether Mr Flynn received money from the Russian government during a 2015 trip to Moscow, the New York Times reports.

Mr Flynn was paid to attend the anniversary of Russia Today, a Russian television network controlled by Vladimir Putin.

Mr Flynn, the Times suggests, sat next to Mr Putin himself.

Mr Flynn reportedly blamed his “faulty memory” rather than apologise, the publication claims.

The White House is apparently in such a state over the controversy, “the knives are out”, a White House official told CNN.


“There’s a lot of unhappiness about this.”

President Trump has remained uncharacteristically quiet over the news.

PRESIDENT Putin appears displeased at losing his man in the Trump administration: Russian warplanes have buzzed a US navy destroyer and a spy ship has appeared off the US coast.

The US Navy has today revealed Russian Su-24 attack jets swooped on the USS Porter in the Black Sea on Saturday Australian time, less than a day after President Trump announced he was ‘considering’ National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s future.

Mr Flynn’s fall from grace — and resignation yesterday — followed controversy over his allegedly close ties to Russian powerbrokers, and his attempts to cover-up a series of phone calls to the Russian ambassador.

Now Moscow has suddenly ramped-up its aggressive military posture-making.

In what the US Navy calls ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ conduct, the destroyer was approached three times by Russian military aircraft which refused to respond to queries.

Meanwhile, a Russian spy ship has been located sitting off the US East Coast amid revelations Russia secretly deployed new medium-range nuclear-tipped cruise missiles — a violation of a 1987 treaty — to two sites in Europe in December

veya wrote:Well he is letting people point smartphones at confidential documents.

Wolf wrote:Putin's government is actually more of a 'nationalist' mob, though still maintaining some socialist links to their past -- universal healthcare, free education guaranteed (inc. the first Uni' degree for those smart enough..), controlled housing prices..