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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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s 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.”

Continue reading the entire article: 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?utm_term=.3441e5279978



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And yet some dipshit is going to support him on this too. Like, does anything matter anymore? I mean, if Obama had even did half the shit Trump has done he'd been impeached within his first 100 days, guaranteed. This guy needs to be impeached yesterday.



interesting...



 

Why couldn't he have revealed it to us instead?



Another day, another step closer to impeachment.



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If this is true, it seems Trump manages to surprise me every time despite me already expecting the unexpected from him. Anyway, great job helping US allies!

RolStoppable said:

My favorite part from the article:

“If that partner learned we’d given this to Russia without their knowledge or asking first, that is a blow to that relationship,” the U.S. official said.

Good job turning to the press with the information that Trump shared classified information.

The partner might not know which partner this is about. Or they might become wary anyway, even without confirmation.



Hmmm. Guess this is what desperation looks like.



RolStoppable said:

My favorite part from the article:

“If that partner learned we’d given this to Russia without their knowledge or asking first, that is a blow to that relationship,” the U.S. official said.

Good job turning to the press with the information that Trump shared classified information.

Lol. So we dont even know who the source is? Not surprised though, Washington Post will print anything bad on trump, even if its false.



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

Its weird that even if this was a fake story, it still sounds very plausible considering the current administration.



RolStoppable said:
Zkuq said:

If this is true, it seems Trump manages to surprise me every time despite me already expecting the unexpected from him. Anyway, great job helping US allies!

The partner might not know which partner this is about. Or they might become wary anyway, even without confirmation.

The thing is that now it's out that these things aren't properly handled. What I find so funny about this is that US officials talk about how incompetent Trump is when they themselves aren't competent enough to shut up and keep this behind closed doors. At least Trump didn't make this public. And you know why?

Because Trump is so cool.

You are assuming they hadn't relayed the issue to alies before this interview.