Trump reportedly gave Russians ‘great intel’
Classified info spill could damage source
President Trump told “highly classified information” to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador during a meeting at the White House last week, according to a new report.
The Washington Post, citing current and former U.S. officials, reported that the details Trump provided Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were so sensitive that they had been withheld from allies — and under close hold within the U.S. government as well.
The disclosed information could damage a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. According to the Post, the president boasted of his knowledge of a looming threat. “I get great intel,” Trump said. “I have people brief me on great intel every day.”
He allegedly revealed a city in the Islamic State’s territory where a U.S. partner detected the threat.
According to the Post, senior White House officials called the CIA and National Security Agency to try to “contain the damage.”
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.”
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., called the news “deeply disturbing.”
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the president’s national security adviser, joked: “This is the last place in the world I want to be . ... I’m leaving.”