Trump's National Security Picks Want to Air Obama's Iran Secrets

[Valin]

Bloomberg:

Eli Lake

Nov. 18 3016

 

For years, many Republicans and conservatives have charged that President Barack Obama was shielding embarrassing intelligence and policy details about Iran in order to support the nuclear deal reached last year.

 

With Donald Trump's upset victory, the party of Lincoln will have an opportunity to declassify and disclose this information. While no decisions have been made, two early picks to Trump's cabinet suggest this is going to happen.

 

(Snip)

 

Pompeo and Flynn are now occupying top positions in Trump's national security cabinet. After the inauguration, they will no longer have to ask to get answers to their questions about Obama's Iran policy.

 

There is some precedent for this. Obama himself in 2008 campaigned against the sitting president's policies on waterboarding and enhanced interrogation. One of the first things his government did when he took office was to declassify and release the legal memos that justified and revoked these practices. It looks like the Republicans are about to return the favor.

[Draggingtree]

:

Eli Lake

Nov. 18 3016

 

For years, many Republicans and conservatives have charged that President Barack Obama was shielding embarrassing intelligence and policy details about Iran in order to support the nuclear deal reached last year.

 

With Donald Trump's upset victory, the party of Lincoln will have an opportunity to declassify and disclose this information. While no decisions have been made, two early picks to Trump's cabinet suggest this is going to happen.

 

(Snip)

 

Pompeo and Flynn are now occupying top positions in Trump's national security cabinet. After the inauguration, they will no longer have to ask to get answers to their questions about Obama's Iran policy.

 

There is some precedent for this. Obama himself in 2008 campaigned against the sitting president's policies on waterboarding and enhanced interrogation. One of the first things his government did when he took office was to declassify and release the legal memos that justified and revoked these practices. It looks like the Republicans are about to return the favor.

 

 

oh my this will get interesting