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President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trumps disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.
The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trumps decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trumps meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.
This is code-word information, said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
This was the meeting he had in the Oval Office with Lavrov and Kislyak right after firing Comey.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)If Hillary or Obama did it
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)I had a post pulled for showing similar graphic. You might want to edit that out,
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)But it was Trump's head blowing up. I thought folks would like it if was him.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)We all remember Helsinki and how this moron made himself Putin's pet.
lindysalsagal
(20,687 posts)Events in real time for future use.