Security writer: Trump’s Best Defense on Intel Flap

Eli Lake at Bloomberg admits that the uproar over President Trump’s reported disclosure of highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister “looks terrible” — but it doesn’t appear to be “collusion with the Russians.” Information about terrorist threats should be shared, he notes, “so long as this sharing is done with care.” But The Washington Post’s account does present a “damning” case for Trump’s “incompetence.” Still, he predicts, “whichever allied intelligence service had its sources and methods endangered will not end intelligence sharing with the US.” Fact is, “the US intelligence community has suffered greater breaches, and its relationships have survived.” The likeliest explanation simply is that Trump “is bad at his job” — but “stupid trumps sinister.”