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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBuzzFeed confirms the WA Post story. Official says, "It's far worse than what has been reported."
And note that the sources in this story are current US officials.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/trump-highly-classified-information-russians?utm_term=.qn2b0wQLxx#.tyBw7dEv88
President Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials during a meeting last week at the White House, two US officials confirmed Monday to BuzzFeed News.
The meeting included Russia's ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The disclosures were first reported by the Washington Post, which cited current and former US officials who said the information was considered so sensitive that some details had been withheld from American allies and was restricted within the US government.
Two US officials who were briefed on Trumps disclosures last week confirmed to BuzzFeed News the veracity of the Washington Post report, with one noting that its far worse than what has already been reported.
At least one member of the Senate Intelligence Committee was also briefed on Trumps disclosures, an intelligence committee staffer said. Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the committee, was not briefed, according to his office. Other members of the committee also said they did not receive a briefing.
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trof
(54,256 posts)He doesn't know.
lindysalsagal
(20,560 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)He doesn't know, he doesn't want to know and he doesn't care.
"Lock Him Up!"
Orrex
(63,165 posts)I'm surprised that it took him this long. I figured that Putin would have the nuclear codes by 4:00PM on January 20th.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)pnwmom
(108,951 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,046 posts)good thing nobody knows about those tapes right?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)Trump may not just be blackmailable by the Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador, he may be blackmailable by some schlub from a St. Petersburg suburb who thought he was a routine foreign assignment ...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)Adam Silverman is former military, who comments on security at the Balloon Juice blog (I think that was his specialty).
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/05/15/monday-late-evening-open-thread/
lindysalsagal
(20,560 posts)Maybe an an official of ours leaked because there was some strategy, but fRump is just an idiot. There's your full stop.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)when they heard what had happened - something like that. We know that someone was rushing to limit damage inside the White House - from the WP article:
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)such egregious, traitor-level raw incompetence, that even THEY cannot ignore it, when piled on top of everything else.
Good lord, not a day goes by without adding to the misery of his sorry-ass "Presidency."
elmac
(4,642 posts)and those banksters are in line with Putin. They want democracy to crash and burn, to be replaced with unfettered capitalism. That is why US industrialists.banksters pored money into the Brexit fight.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)pnwmom
(108,951 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)Russian photographer.
pnwmom
(108,951 posts)what he said (probably because they were there, or else because he told them) were so concerned that they went to the CIA and other intelligence people for damage control.
At that point some "US officials" started leaking to the press.
Initech
(100,027 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,935 posts)bresue
(1,007 posts)Isn't he the one that is up next?
pnwmom
(108,951 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)...impulse that had him spouting off about what he can do to women "because he's a star". As in: I have the best intel. I'm the biggest star.
pnwmom
(108,951 posts)Shoonra
(518 posts)This has become extremely serious. Trump is no longer merely talking to Putin on the phone or tweeting, he is inviting a multitude of high ranking Russians right into the Oval Office, and without any US witnesses to keep an eye on them. And it's not as if we're all buddy-buddy; Russia is still playing for the opposing side in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, it's covering for North Korea, and its planes are buzzing our borders and buzzing our bases elsewhere.
It would appear that Trump is showing his cards to the Russians, yet concealing them from his own consultants and advisors in Washington.
If a Democratic President did this, even once, the Republican Congress would already have articles of impeachment drawn up.