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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 jmorris on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:14PM (6 children)
I am pretty sure I have already corrected you once for this one so you are just a goddamned liar at this point for still repeating it.
When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney outed CIA officer Valerie Wilson to punish her husband
Richard Armitage, a lifer in the swamp working for Sec State Powell at the time is the one who 'outted' Plame and her husband's seditious activity to Robert Novak. Plame was no longer covert, she was a desk jockey. Armitage told the Special Prosecutor he was the one who did the deed, which was not a crime. But the persecutions continued because a Special Prosecutor knows their actual mandate isn't to discover the truth and write a report, his job was to indict somebody as close to the President as possible, Bush, Cheney or Rove were his targets. Failing that he settled for Cheney's top minion and tossed his life on zero pretext. You did know that Libby has been entirely exonerated and even got his law license back. Now where does he get his life back, his reputation? Rove's marriage was ruined in the whole affair.
Armitage tipped Novak because Plame and her husband were working with other Democrat apparatchiks to undermine Bush's foreign policy. The whole CIA still needs to be fumigated over the events of that time.
Absolutely nothing I wrote above is a fact still in dispute. But you scum continue to repeat the lie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:01PM (1 child)
> Richard Armitage, a lifer in the swamp working for Sec State Powell at the time is the one who 'outted' Plame
He was chief of staff to vice president cheney. His nickname was "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney" [nbcnews.com]
The rest of your "correction" is similarly accurate.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday May 17 2017, @07:41PM
What a f*cking moron. Do you even Google? "Scooter" Libby was Chief of Staff for Cheney, he was railroaded into serving a prison term and later entirely exonerated and restored to the bar. Richard Armitage was the leaker and worked for Secretary of State Powell. Armitage told the Special Prosecutor in the first week of the investigation because he knew he had committed no crime. None of these facts are in dispute, even the Special Prosecutor's official final report admits this is the reality.
But the lesson learned from the sad affair is NO MORE SPECIAL PROSECUTORS. EVER. No Democrat need worry about one because the swamp protects its own and now any Republican who allows one is a moron who deserves what will happen.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @08:12PM (3 children)
And now for your second act, you'll prove how Hitler was framed? I know you're itching to smack down us goddamned liars for that, too.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday May 17 2017, @08:59PM (2 children)
You truly are impervious to facts and reality aren't ya. Every single fact I asserted is fully documented in every major news source you can find, even the enemy ones like the NYT and WaPo, and you simply ignore all of that and continue on with your alternate reality. Literally nobody seriously argues the position that Libby outted Plame outside the Kos and DU fever swamps. I think this is the point where I link to How to Know You Won A Political Debate On The Internet [dilbert.com] and move on because you are ticking most of the boxes now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @09:02AM (1 child)
You piqued my curiosity with the statement that people are ignoring easily verified facts. After googling around a lot the clearest info seems to be from Wikipedia:
Libby's voting rights were restored in 2013 by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. Three years later, on November 3, 2016, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals granted Libby's petition for reinstatement to the D.C. Bar.
His prison sentence was commuted, and Bush considered a full pardon but that didn't seem to happen. The only story here is that it pays to have friends in high places. I've wasted enough time on this to judge it 90% bullshit from you, but if you add any links I will read them and give my thoughts. Basically it must be something beyond an alt-right news site making bold emotionally charged claims. If you can't provide the "fully documented in every major news source" stories then your dilbert link is jumping the gun.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday May 18 2017, @10:40PM
Really? Your GoogleFu is so poor you couldn't find the Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org]? For a Wikipedia page about a politicized topic it is actually pretty complete for a change. Guess competition improves everything? It answers all of your questions and confirms that without a doubt the original charge of Phoenix666 being a "goddamned liar" is legit. But if you prefer a more #FakeNews source, CNN [cnn.com] has you covered too.