https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016365941

"Holy shit, Donald Trump gave classified Israeli intel to Putin, probably more than once"

And that's just today's blog. He's been doing it almost non-stop since Saturday.

I thought that was phony.

The GOP is trying to say we gave them US taxpayer money.

It was theirs, though the assets had been frozen. But notable in this is the fact that Iran earned the money from the sale of oil to South Korea, a bypass of the embargo against them that was permitted by none other than our favorite orange headed buffoon, Donald Trump. It's my opinion that this was a political move to drop oil prices in the US by making more of our own domestic supply available here, letting what South Korea depended on us to get come temporarily from the Iranians. But you won't hear any Republican critics of Biden mention that.

The assets were unfrozen in order to facilitate a prisoner exchange that, if Trump had done it, Republicans would be singing his praises over snookering the Iranians into such a cheap deal for release of hostages. But since Biden did it, they criticized it because they have to always take the other side.

Remember all of the hemming and hawing and denying that Bubba Dubya did when he was accused of invading Iraq for the oil? Here's another duplicitous, lying, scamming Republican President basically figuring out how to use oil he couldn't get his own hands on to help float a horrifically failed Presidency by convincing people that he was responsible for the price of gas. It did drop the price, temporarily, though that was more due to the drop in market than to anything the babbling orange nutjob did.

BTW, Bush labelled his invasion of Iraq "Operation Iraqi Freedom." But until the criticism began to be leveled at him, his plan was to call it "Operation Iraqi Liberation." And there was a reason for that, if you look at the acronym created by the first letters of each word. You better believe even he was smart enough not to follow through with that.

(1) The leak was years ago. If you don't handle the leak you're shtupid--if you need to pull out the agent or need to change things to invalidate the leaked info, no matter. Then again, this was also dissected neatly back then and found to be problematic in terms of what could be done to stop the source of the intel. Suspicion said one thing, facts said not so much.

(2) Document "leaks" are mostly unconfirmed, except by a bit of extrajudicial hearsay that has nothing to do with I/P.

(3) I've heard it claimed that leaks about "Iron Dome" were the problem. That's utter nonsense.

On the other hand,

(1) It's insane to think that the utterly fungible $6 billion (a bit less, actually) in funds available, ostensibly, to the Iranians for 'humanitarian purposes' was funding this opening act of war. The timing's whack.

(2) It's insane to think that the $6 billion or so isn't utterly fungible. Hamas built a camp with construction materials imported from israel, *all* of which was supposedly "humanitarian" and "guaranteed" to not go for Hamas war goals. Oopsy.

(3) The remaining point is "truthy": If the money is fungible and prior 'humanitarian aid' can be used to kill Jews--an avowed 'higher moral good' for Hamas and Iran's mullahs--it's idiocy to say that it "obviously" can't be used for the goal. The guarantees of long-standing speciousness are no less specious because they're yet future. It's hard to pin blame on is (the opening salvo and declaration of war by Hamas) on what isn't (because it's yet future). Time may be emergent, but we're stuck with its arrow.

At the same time, connecting a leak years ago involving Syria to something that involves Gaza and probably Iran is also a bit of misdirection.