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    a ‘senior administration official … granted anonymity’ said the odds of a preliminary deal to end the conflict with Iran were between 80 and 85 percent

    It’s absurd to call this non-information a security leak, when it is agreeing with Trump’s daily “they are begging for a deal” market manipulation, or war will be over soon/2 weeks constants.

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      The ‘leak’ itself is lame and unimportant. But the Admin using ‘The Leak’ to justify more abuses is the real story. They leak it, cry about the leak, then blame leakers and abuse more power.

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    This is huge, right? Right, I mean investigations, Congress probes, all that? Right?

    Oh, wait, no. That’ll never happen.

    The anonymous source cited in a June 2026 story about the probability of a successful Iran peace deal, which was one of the six stories the Trump administration singled out as having “threatened national security and/or spread falsehoods,” was Vance, Status revealed on Wednesday.

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        Not until the Supreme Court decides that the VP can be held accountable for his actions, you know because they ruled a while back that the people could hold the president and VP accountable for what they do in office.

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          Almost

          They said the President has to be impeached and convicted

          If the House flips, expect daily impeachments.

          The Senate corruption will be harder to deal with.

          As the Germans say, payday is coming

          But it takes time to fix a mess this big

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    I’ve never seen so many “agents provocateurs” under one whitehouse roof. The truth teller is now the outlier in polite society.

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    “In June 2026, Politico cited a ‘senior administration official … granted anonymity’ said the odds of a preliminary deal to end the conflict with Iran were between 80 and 85 percent,” the letter said.

    That’s it, the whole “threat” thing is predicated on that quote. It’s a claim Trump makes every fucking week, but somehow when his own VP claims it it’s a national security threat. Deeply unserious.

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    I mean, he is a source of a threat to National security, just maybe in a different way.