Damage is done whether or not Trump shared or sold classified material.

[thucythucy]

I imagine other intelligence agencies have or are evaluating whether they want to share their most sensitive intelligence with the US.

If I was the head of an allied intelligence service I'd be thinking long and hard about sharing with the US, given the clown show that was the former administration. Just like Trump undermined faith in American treaty commitments, he's undermined faith in the security of our most closely guarded secrets.

We may never know what might or might not happen because of this; what US interests will be threatened, who among our citizens or military harmed, as a result of intelligence not shared because of this toxic Bozo.

[elleng]

1. Right, NO WAY.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Excellent point.

Trump has seriously undermined trust in the US system on many levels.

[leftieNanner]

3. I believe that foreign allies already did this when Idiot Face was in office

Hopefully, with Joe Biden at the helm, we are back in their good graces.

It's possible that they still hedge their bets when sharing certain kinds of information.

Damn, but this guy needs to see some serious consequences.

[thucythucy]

4. Yes, I seem to recall

that Israeli intelligence pulled back from day one, after TFG invited the Russian ambassador into the oval office and shared a prize bit of information that compromised an Israeli source.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. And we still have the worse exposure of intelligence still out free (tRUMP). What's to keep him

from mouthing off perhaps a tidbit of juicy top secret or higher classification piece of information? This particularly concerns me as he's a loose cannon (deliberate or unintentional?). I strongly suspect that he saw all of this crap, and said to himself, ahhh, a way to yet make more money.

To these cretins, there is no upper limit to when they are finally satisfied w/ how much money they have.

[AntiFascist]

6. What copies were made or written down? Maybe the surveillance video will show something n/t

[doc03]

7. It was like leaving our national security

to the Three Stooges.

[thucythucy]

8. Except the Three Stooges were anti-Nazi:

[unblock]

9. Frankly, darth Cheney beat him to it

When he outed Valerie plame. Not only did that probably get sone people killed directly, but surely it had a chilling effect on our ability to recruit informants.

Who would risk their lives knowing that some random politician might out you and maybe get you killed if they see you as a pawn in some personal power side game.

It's a bit easier to dismiss Donnie as uniquely untrustworthy due to his many psychological issues. Cheney was far more damaging I think, because they hate er his politics, he came across as someone who would put national security above personal politics. That betrayal, to me, is far more disturbing in terms of the intelligence community's ability to rebuild.

[thucythucy]

10. Yes, what Cheney did was disgraceful.

It's hard to measure which betrayal is worse though.

I just recently-within the past few hours--saw a report that among the documents TFG had at Mar a Largo were payroll lists of overseas intelligence sources. If that's the case the damage may be incalculable.

It reminds me of Kim Philby taking "the Russia Book" out of British Intelligence HQ, copying out the details of every British intelligence source inside the Soviet Union.

Edited to add: Here's a link to that story--

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217040364