The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
Politico: Judge: Trump tweet did not declassify CIA program for Syrian rebels
The judge rejected arguments that Trump effectively confirmed the existence of the program when he used his Twitter account last July to counter a Washington Post story.
A tweet from President Donald Trump disputing aspects of a news report about a CIA program to aid Syrian rebels did not declassify the program or undermine the government’s legal authority to keep details about it secret, a federal judge ruled in an opinion released Monday.
U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Carter Jr. rejected arguments that Trump effectively confirmed the existence of the program when he used his Twitter account last July to counter a Washington Post story that reported Trump’s decision to end the effort and suggested that the move was a concession to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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WNU Editor: I recall at the time the New York Times was pushing for days the story that President Trump revealed classified CIA programs. Maybe .... and maybe not .... but I cannot say with 100% accuracy that the above tweet classified anything. And in this case .... a US Federal judge is saying the same thing.
