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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
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.  |
Donald Trump Tweets that he has the absolute right to share this information with the Russians because he wants them to help fight ISIS.
Very often I have felt that the worst ills are always brought on by those proclaiming that "they have a good heart".
One main reason certain information is classified is to protect the source, which if outed would almost certainly be killed. A second main reason is that if our sources do not trust that their identity will be protected they will stop being sources.
This attitude by Trump is ignorant and very dangerous.