On Monday, the Washington Post ran a story claiming U. S. President Donald Trump had divulged highly classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a meeting in the Oval Office. The Post came by this information via former and current U. S. officials who continue to remain anonymous.
Trump’s national security advisor, H. R. McMaster, was tasked with mitigating the damage of this leak. However, any success he had at the time (which was very little) was seriously undermined by Trump’s statements that he did, in fact, divulge the information – and that he had every right to do so.
Let’s examine the issues here. According to the Washington Post, Trump gave his Russian counterparts information ‘considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U. S. government.’ Specifically:
‘Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States learned only through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering method, but he described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s territory where the U. S. intelligence partner detected the threat.’
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on MAY 18, 2017.
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