US intel sources warn Israel against sharing secrets with Trump administration

[highplainsdem]

Source: YNET News

Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration as the next president of the United States is causing Israeli intelligence officials to lose sleep as well. Discussions held in closed forums recently raised fears of a leakage of Israeli intelligence top-classified information, clandestine modus oprandi and sources, which have been exposed to the American intelligence community over the past 15 years, to Russia – and from there to Iran.

The cause of concern are the suspicions of unreported ties between the president-elect or his associates and the Kremlin, whose agents are also associated with intelligence officials in Tehran.

These fears, which began upon Trump’s election, grew stronger following a meeting held recently between Israeli and American intelligence officials (the date of the meeting is not mentioned to protect the sources of the report). During the meeting, according to the Israelis who participated in it, their American colleagues voiced despair over Trump’s election, as he often lashes out at the American intelligence community. The American officials also told the Israelis that the National Security Agency (NSA) had “highly credible information” that Russia’s intelligence agencies, the FSB and GRU, were responsible for hacking the Democratic Party (DNC) servers during the elections and leaking sensitive information to WikiLeaks, which hurt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The American officials further added that they believed Russia President Vladimir Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump – but did not elaborate. They were apparently referring to what was published Wednesday about embarrassing information collected by the Russian intelligence in a bid to blackmail the president-elect.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4906642,00.html

---

The article goes on to say that American officials warned the Israelis to "be careful" after Trump takes office, and "recommended that until it is made clear that Trump is not inappropriately connected to Russia and is not being extorted – Israel should avoid revealing sensitive sources to administration officials."

Found via a Twitter post from ADL analyst Nadav Pollak, who cautions that "We don't know in which level it was said and to which agency."

https://twitter.com/NadavPollak/status/819531484184924160

[guillaumeb]

1. This sounds like a bad novel.

A US President with possible covert ties to Russia, and a Cabinet full of former CEOs willing to deal with anyone for profits.

[turbinetree]

2. I keep thinking of the Manchurian Candidate Movie from 1962

but instead of Chinese or North Korean replace them with Russians

[guillaumeb]

3. Agreed. Trump's entire behavior during the campaign,

the refusal to provide any financial details, the fawning behavior toward Putin, simply amplifies the feeling that he has financial ties to Russia that might impact his behavior.

[roamer65]

4. Absolutely a smart decision.

I would hope our IC is doing the same.

[MurrayDelph]

5. Well, maybe the head of the

Israeli government shouldn't have acted as an extension of the Republican party, and vice versa.

[lark]

6. But Netanyaho LOVES drumpf!

And Drumpf is stupid enough to share Israeli intelligence with Russia. Of course, it could be one of his minions that does this, but the result will be the same. He's going to fuck over the entire world just to get his hand on those oligarchs millions he's been promised. Repugs wake up, he's not one of you, no matter how much he pretends. He's the devil that will destroy us in favor of Moscow.

[nycbos]

7. Oh so the people to are actually responsible for keeping Israel safe don't like Trump.

I am shocked

[Fast Walker 52]

8. haha, hope it makes the wingnuts' heads explode