Off-Topic Trump "Top Secret" Trump Boasts About Watching 'Top Secret' Iran Video Immediately After Becoming Eligible To Receive Classified Briefings
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-iran-intelligence-briefing_us_57a26249e4b04414d1f370b9 Donald Trump on Wednesday described vivid details from a video he said he had watched earlier in the day of Iranian officials unloading cash from an airplane. The money was part of a payment, announced earlier this year, from the U.S. to Iran to settle a decades-old dispute over an incomplete weapons sale. "I'll never forget the scene this morning," Trump told the crowd in Daytona Beach, Florida, of what he said he had watched. "Iran - I don't think you've heard this anywhere but here - Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane ... Trump's description of the "top secret" tape came just days after the Republican presidential nominee became eligible to receive classified intelligence briefings - a privilege afforded to the nominees of the two major political parties in order to prepare them, should they win the White House. A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign declined to say how Trump acquired the video ... A video clip shown on Fox News Wednesday morning appeared to show U.S. citizens arriving in Geneva on Jan. 17. The video was clearly marked "Geneva, Switzerland." If this is the "top secret" Iran video that Trump claims to have seen, it would mean that Trump told his audience a half-dozen things about the tape that aren't accurate. Contrary to what Trump said about the video he claimed to have seen, this video was not shot in Iran, it did not show the exchange of cash, it was not "top secret," it was not "a military tape," and it was not "provided by Iran." Nor was it released to "embarrass the United States," as Trump repeatedly claimed. On the contrary, the safe return of U.S. citizens to neutral Switzerland was widely viewed as a victory for international diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy. A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not respond to an inquiry about whether Trump was referring to the Geneva tape. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
