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President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russia's foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation, two U.S. officials said on Monday, plunging the White House into another controversy just months into Trump's short tenure in office.
The intelligence, shared at a meeting last week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, was supplied by a U.S. ally in the fight against the militant group, both officials with knowledge of the situation said.
The White House declared the allegations, first reported by the Washington Post, incorrect.
[...] One of the officials said the intelligence discussed by Trump in his meeting with Lavrov was classified "Top Secret" and held in a secure "compartment" to which only a handful of intelligence officials have access.
After Trump's disclosure of the information, which one of the officials described as spontaneous, officials immediately called the CIA and the National Security Agency, both of which have agreements with a number of allied intelligence services around the world, and informed them what had happened.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKCN18B2MX
Also at The Washington Post and The New York Times.
[Update.] According to Ars Technica, President Trump then proceeded to Tweet information about this meeting:
Statements from President Trump on Twitter and from White House National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster did not directly contradict details initially reported by the Washington Post late on Monday. McMaster said that no sources or methods were exposed in the conversation. However, the unnamed officials cited in the Post report were concerned that Trump's citing of the exact location "in the Islamic State’s territory where the US intelligence partner detected the threat" could expose the source. Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted:
As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2017
...to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2017
Trump also lashed out at the intelligence community for leaking about his actions:
I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2017
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:49PM (8 children)
...claiming that she had some kind of authority to declassify all that shit, because she was a secretary.
And your response was that even if she did have that authority it would still be a bad thing. Ring a bell? [soylentnews.org]
Bottom line - whether or not she committed the felonies which we all know she committed, SHE IS INCOMPETENT!!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:52PM (7 children)
She's incompetent - AND EVIL.
Trump is incompetent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:03PM (2 children)
Translation: I hate hillary! I hate hillary! I hate hate HATE hillary!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:35PM (1 child)
Well, if that were all there was to it, you see the flip side of the coin in the media every day. "I HATE HATE HATE TRUMP!!"
So, he's an incompetent booby. And, the media is obsessed with him. IMHO, he is far less evil that Hillary is. However honestly Trump got his money, at least he didn't sell influence to America's enemies to make those millions and billions. And, yes, the Clintons were peddling influence to anyone who could pay, from Russia, to the blood diamond mines in Africa, to disaster stricken islands in the Caribbean, to Wall Street, and probably places we haven't even heard of.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:21AM
> Well, if that were all there was to it, you see the flip side of the coin in the media every day. "I HATE HATE HATE TRUMP!!"
Didn't your mommy teach you not to jump off the bridge just because all the other kids are doing it?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:12PM (3 children)
And even more evil.
Don't expect me to give Hillary even a modicum of praise. But that doesn't mean that Trump isn't, and wasn't obviously, worse.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:36PM (2 children)
The important qualification is putting the USA before other nations. It's basic bare-minimum patriotism, obviously a job requirement for the president. Of all the 2016 candidates, only Trump qualifies.
Besides failing at the above, Clinton, was additionally disqualified due to unusually serious crime that is relevant to the job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:27AM (1 child)
The important qualification is putting the USA before other nations. It's basic bare-minimum patriotism, obviously a job requirement for the president. Of all the 2016 candidates, only Trump qualifies.
Which is why he knowingly installed a national security advisor who was taking payments from Turkey [thehill.com] who then used his position to quash an anti-ISIS miliary operation that Turkey opposed. [thehill.com]
America First, my ass!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:02PM
Turmp also let the president of turkey bring thugs to american soil to beat the shit out of american citizens. [thehill.com]
Those thugs were then allowed to leave the country and face no consequences for breaking our laws.
America first, my ass!