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.
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=.d98b8a87db2fI just read this earlier today. This may be the most serious problem Trump has had so far. I'm not sure he knows that he can't say whatever he wants to just anyone.
Nah. Don't fall for the fake news, wait a few hours or days to see the truth.
I find it ironic the FUD being spread here, as all Bitcoiners hate the fact that FUD is constantly spread about BTC only being used for drugs and illegal stuff. News is always making shit up and spinning their stories with "anon sources". Anon sources are garbage, you might as well be straight up quoting 4chan.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/05/15/mcmaster_the_story_that_came_out_tonight_as_reported_is_false.htmlLT. GEN. H.R. McMASTER, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: I have a brief statement for the record. There is nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the American people. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. The president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation.
At no time, at no time, where intelligent sources or methods discussed. And the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. Two other senior officials who were present, including the Secretary of the State, remember the meeting the same way and have said so. Their on the record accounts should outweigh anonymous sources. I was in the room. It didn't happen.
WaPo publishes maybe one of the most blatant fake news reports we may have ever seen.
McMasters and Tillerson both say its completely fake news just a while after it starts to trend. The story gets maybe 2 or 3 hours of decent trend time before its put to bed.
WaPo somehow becomes even faker news.
Yawns.
I concur, I'm not fond of Trump but this is odd. I'm curious how legit this leak is, there were only x people in the room, it would be gi to jail style dangerous to leak something as sensitive as this. Also, MCMasters is pretty chill, and supposedly he was there. Said it was cool, I don't really see him lying for Trump, ESP at the expense of his career.
But who leaked this? I don't really see why someone would fabricate this, and this is clearly a bid to get him impeached by someone highly placed. This wasn't done lightly, the brevity of the situation speaks to this being true.
And if it's true, dammit man, it's like he's trying to do this shit on purpose. I won't point out all the irony, it's literally too much. They don't get optics. Fucking period.
I will give this a few days to shake out, then look at it again. Too early now, but my bones feel like this to, will be popcorn worthy.
He's the United Airlines of presidents.