I still don't see specific sources or methods being discussed. All I see is that Trump potentially sabotaged America's ability to get intel from allies in the future.
Which McMaster specifically said was false, as did the other 2 senior officials in the room. But why deal with reality...
I still don't see specific sources or methods being discussed. All I see is that Trump potentially sabotaged America's ability to get intel from allies in the future.
Which McMaster specifically said was false, as did the other 2 senior officials in the room. But why deal with reality...
In a news briefing Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s national-security adviser, Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster, said Mr. Trump’s conversation “was wholly appropriate” but that he believed the leaking of it put national security at risk.
Gen. McMaster wouldn’t discuss whether information Mr. Trump conveyed to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador was classified, but that the president had “in no way compromised any sources or methods in this conversation.”
He also said he was “not concerned at all” about the potential for U.S. information-sharing relationships to be in jeopardy and added that Mr. Trump “wasn’t even aware of where this information came from. He wasn’t briefed on the source.”
The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Mr. Trump divulged details about Islamic State to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in his meeting last week in a way that revealed enough information for them to potentially compromise the source of the intelligence, according to officials, who said the intelligence came from the U.S. ally.
“It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting,” Gen. McMaster said of the president’s discussion of threats from Islamic State-controlled territories in his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. “It had all to do with operations that are already ongoing have been made public for months.”
Asked why White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert had placed calls to the directors of the CIA and NSA after the meeting if Mr. Trump hadn’t disclosed any sensitive intelligence, Gen. McMaster said he hadn’t spoken with Mr. Bossert but that the adviser could have done so “out of an overabundance of caution.”
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Anything else we all agree on that you want to argue?
That's chinteresting.
Trump leaked Israeli intelligence.
That will go well.