Ex-NSA analyst: Intel sources say White House 'targeting journalists' with 'help from Russian intel'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


DAVID EDWARDS
07 MAR 2017 AT 09:18 ET

Former NSA analyst John Schindler, who now is a national security columnist for the Observer, reported on Tuesday that his sources in the intelligence community believe that President Donald Trump’s White House is colluding with Russian intelligence to “target journalists.”

In a tweet on Tuesday, Schindler revealed: “Learned fm very reliable IC sources that Trump WH, w/help fm Russian intel, is targeting US journalists.”

Link to tweet

Although Schindler provided no additional details, it’s no secret that Trump has all but declared war on the media during his first 45 days in office. However, the president has embraced conservative media sources like Fox News, Breitbart and various right-wing blogs.

In one case, the White House tried to punish Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt by planting a false story accusing him of laughing at the death of a Navy SEAL. Trump has called the media “fake news” and “an enemy of the people.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/ex-nsa-analyst-intel-sources-say-white-house-targeting-journalists-with-help-from-russian-intel/

[RKP5637]

1. Trump, doing what dictators do to establish their tentacles. I hope more of America is

waking up to WTF is going on.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. It's been a while...

Maybe even before the election, but didn't one of the journalists receive a seizure-triggering email?

[Lochloosa]

3. Kurt Eichenwald

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/20/newsweek-kurt-eichenwald-twitter-epilepsy-seizure

[dhill926]

4. we are very close to seeing our democracy go down the rabbit hole...

people won't even remember what it was like after enough time. This fucker needs to be stopped. I do predict some massive marches and rallies with the health care issue though...resist...

[NewJeffCT]

5. Interesting that the original article

was from the NY Observer, the publication that Jared Kushner used to run.

[nocalflea]

6. So the IC leaks this for publication ?

Gee, I wonder what they get by doing that ?
Is this a public service (to journalists) ? Or something else ? Why would they want Trump to know this ?

[displacedtexan]

13. This is infinitely more believable than anything Trump tweets...or says.

No. One. Believes. Trump.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Greenwald and his shitstains at the Intercept were unavailable for comment

[HopeAgain]

8. Careful

There's so many conspiracy theories, I don't want to be like the Trumpers and believe whatever sounds like something I want to believe...

[Fast Walker 52]

9. completely evil and despicable

god I hate these Trumpsters

[bucolic_frolic]

10. We are in a battle for our Constitutional freedoms

just like 1776

RESIST

[zentrum]

11. I'm sure they are after...

...Maddow. And New Yorker journalists.

[lark]

12. Have you ever noticed how most of their claims about others really describes what they would do.

Drumpf has no caring or concern about our military, that's why he was watching tv or wandering the WH while the Yemen raid took place. He didn't give a shit. Calling media fake news and enemy of the people is what he is. He's a total 100% enemy of the working class, despite all his lies to the contrary, and also promotes "fake news", aka "all lies all the time". He is a horrendously duplicitous, supremely greedy, totally and willfully ignorant and hate filled pretend human.