US, Israeli spies upset that Trump shared intel with Russia

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Source: Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The United States and Israel are publicly brushing aside President Donald Trump’s reported sharing of a highly classified tip from Israel with Russia, but spy professionals on both sides are frustrated and fearful about the repercussions to a critical intelligence partnership.

“I know how things work in Israeli intelligence,” said Uri Bar-Joseph, a professor at Haifa University in Israel who has studied and written widely about the Jewish state’s spy operations. “I have some friends I talk with. They’re upset. They are sincerely frustrated and angry.”

Meeting Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador to Washington in the Oval Office last week, Trump shared intelligence about an Islamic State threat involving laptops carried on airplanes, according to a senior U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to talk about the sensitive material and spoke on condition of anonymity.

U.S. and Israeli officials have tried to allay concerns. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters that Trump’s disclosure was “wholly appropriate.” Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman tweeted that the allies will continue to have a “deep, meaningful and unprecedented” security relationship.

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[nycbos]

1. It probably took Mossad YEARS to get an asset inside of ISIS.

This was the west’s best chance to foil any terror plots they might have been, or are currently planning.

That was blown due to Trump’s child like boasting.

If you are the head of the Mossad would you continue to share intel with us?

[uppityperson]

2. Of course.

[dembotoz]

3. my city has a number of russian jews who fled russia fairly recently

wonder what they think of all this