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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:56 PM May 2017

Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say

Source: ABC News

The life of a spy placed by Israel inside ISIS is at risk tonight, according to current and former U.S. officials, after President Donald Trump reportedly disclosed classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week.

The spy provided intelligence involving an active ISIS plot to bring down a passenger jet en route to the United States, with a bomb hidden in a laptop that U.S. officials believe can get through airport screening machines undetected. The information was reliable enough that the U.S. is considering a ban on laptops on all flights from Europe to the United States.

The sensitive intelligence was shared with the United States, officials say, on the condition that the source remain confidential.

“The real risk is not just this source,” said Matt Olsen, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and an ABC News contributor, “but future sources of information about plots against us.”

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/trumps-disclosure-endangered-spy-inside-isis-israel-officials/story?id=47449304

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Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say (Original Post) octoberlib May 2017 OP
Oops... SHRED May 2017 #1
I hope they can extract this person before he gets killed. nycbos May 2017 #2
Valerie Plame part 2. DK504 May 2017 #12
I hope we can extract Trump from the Oval Office milestogo May 2017 #14
The two aren't mutually exclusive nycbos May 2017 #17
Looks like it's gonna be a long hot summer. BumRushDaShow May 2017 #3
Up until now I've almost been able to stomach this... administration... bleedingulcers May 2017 #4
Mossad is famously forgiving to foreigners who burn Israeli agents in the field Recursion May 2017 #5
Remember, Trump likes people who weren't captured. nt neeksgeek May 2017 #6
That's going to be quite the jaunt overseas. nolabear May 2017 #7
Oh god I dread that trip NastyRiffraff May 2017 #8
Countries are preparing for an illiterate Godzilla. kairos12 May 2017 #9
Extract the spy? We need to extract the traitor truthisfreedom May 2017 #10
Maybe they can pull him out & ISIS will kill each other trying to figure it out nt 7962 May 2017 #11
He Gave His Life So Trump Could Have a Billy Bush Moment... TomCADem May 2017 #13
Good grief, Trump is just SUCH a dumbass. hamsterjill May 2017 #15
His/her head is probably detached leftynyc May 2017 #16
the technology is built somewhere. Those "Russian Passport" Turkish airport bombers, where did Sunlei May 2017 #18
IMO the "secret Chechen prisons." recently reported have something to do with this. Sunlei May 2017 #19

DK504

(3,847 posts)
12. Valerie Plame part 2.
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:45 PM
May 2017

Hope Bebe pulls his people out before the blood starts to flow. We will never know the damage of Cheney and the Chimp's damage in Europe after their treason.

bleedingulcers

(43 posts)
4. Up until now I've almost been able to stomach this... administration...
Tue May 16, 2017, 07:11 PM
May 2017

but this really takes the pickle - the idea of what could befall that spy fills me with horror.

This is like living in an endless nightmare....

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
5. Mossad is famously forgiving to foreigners who burn Israeli agents in the field
Tue May 16, 2017, 07:15 PM
May 2017

This should be fine, right?

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
8. Oh god I dread that trip
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:30 PM
May 2017

I used to shudder every time W interacted with a foreign leader abroad, thinking he'd embarrass the country yet again.

Now, it's beyond embarrassment. It's the almost certain knowledge that he'll blurt out something dangerous to America, and to the world.

truthisfreedom

(23,146 posts)
10. Extract the spy? We need to extract the traitor
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:37 PM
May 2017

From the WH and turn him over to the Israelis for thorough debriefing.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
18. the technology is built somewhere. Those "Russian Passport" Turkish airport bombers, where did
Wed May 17, 2017, 11:15 AM
May 2017

those briefcase bombs come from?

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
19. IMO the "secret Chechen prisons." recently reported have something to do with this.
Wed May 17, 2017, 11:25 AM
May 2017

Russias government has killed off to many Journalists trying to report on "secret Chechen prisons."

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