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Originally Posted by zeek
No doubt Trump wanted to clean house of the uncooperative Comey who was investigating his ties to Putin before Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak at the White House today. Trump couldn't risk the chance that the Ruskies would release any of the dirt they have on him because he had failed to thwart the FBI investigation. It's all good.   |
President Donald Trump last week shared highly classified intelligence with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in an Oval Office meeting that was so under wraps that American allies were not aware of the information, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Current and former anonymous US officials told The Post that Trump's disclosures to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak jeopardized a key source of intelligence about the Islamic State terror group, as the source had not given the US permission to share the intelligence with Russia.
Officials told The Post that Trump's disclosure risked the cooperation of an ally that has access inside of ISIS.
This story is stating very clearly that the intelligence community does not trust Trump with classified material anymore. The key reason why information like this would not be shared with our allies is that we think it would compromise our source. Trump has compromised our source with the Russians.
