WaPo: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister

[the-pi-guy]

WaPo: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister - NeoGAF

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 that Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
 The information Trump 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 that Trump’s decision to do so risks 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 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.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...b69_story.html
 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=236914128&postcount=15

[Xevross]

Trump is an idiot

[Legend]

Well that's not good.

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

It would be pretty funny if he got his top secret classification revoked.

[the-pi-guy]

CNN/Donald Trump:  I had "absolute right" to share information with Russia - NeoGAF

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday he had the right to share information with Russia related to terrorism and other issues, his first public response to the revelation he disclosed classified information at an Oval Office meeting last week. "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 to terrorism and airline flight safety, Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism," he tweeted. Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump 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.... 4:03 AM - 16 May 2017 Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump ...to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism. Trump's tweets Tuesday notably lack any mention of whether the information he shared was classified. And the remarks appear to contradict statements made by his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster -- who told reporters in the wake of the report that "the story as reported is false" -- and White House deputy national security adviser for strategy, Dina Powell, who said Monday "the story is false. The President only discussed the common threats that both countries faced."

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politi...fSrc=permalink CNN said some of the information that was shared by Donald Trump has to do with the laptop ban on international flights.