WAPO: Trump shared highly classified intel to Russians in Oval Office

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(05-15-2017, 07:38 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: 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=.5a85e6ef5763&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw



Trump shared more information to the Russians than we've shared to our own allies, according to the source.


Naturally the White House response will be that the issue is this was leaked, not that it happened.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/15/trump-told-classified-info-to-russian-officials/101726824/

Quote:Lawmakers slammed reports that President Trump revealed "highly classified information" to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador during a meeting last week at the White House, calling the alleged disclosures "inexcusable" and "very disturbing." 


The Washington Post, citing current and former U.S. officials, reported that Trump provided Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak classified intelligence that was so sensitive it had been withheld from allies – and under close hold within the U.S. government as well.


"To compromise a source is something that you just don't do," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said. "That's why we keep the information that we get from intelligence sources so close...to prevent that from happening."


As White House pushed back on the story and criticized the use of anonymous sources, Democrats issued a flurry of statements denouncing Trump's reported actions. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Trump owed the intelligence community, Americans and Congress "a full explanation" of what happened.  "If the report is true, it is very disturbing," he said in a statement. "Revealing classified information at this level is extremely dangerous and puts at risk the lives of Americans and those who gather intelligence for our country."



Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said that if the news was true, it was "a slap in the face to the intel community."