“Trump betrayed us,” said a senior Israeli military official bluntly, his voice stern with reproach. “And if we can’t trust him, then we’re going to have to do what is necessary on our own if our back is up against the wall with Iran.”
ISRAELI COMMANDOS SECRETLY BUGGED AN ISIS HEADQUARTERS, THEN AFTER MONTHS OF LISTENING THEY LEARNED THAT ISIS WAS PLANNING TO MAKE BOMBS OUT OF LAPTOP
COMPUTERS. THE ISRAELIS PASSED THE INFO ON TO THE CIA WHO INFORMED TRUMP AND THEN...
They did. It was a much-admired, as well as appreciated, gift—and it scared the living hell out of the American spymasters who received it
a beaming President Trump huddled in the Oval Office with Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak.
“I get great intel,” the president suddenly boasted, as prideful as if he were bragging about the amenities at one of his company’s hotels. “I have people brief me on great intel every day.”
He quickly went on to share with representatives of a foreign adversary not only the broad outlines of the plot to turn laptop computers into airborne bombs but also at least one highly classified operational detail—the sort of sensitive, locked-in-the-vault intel that was not shared with even Congress or friendly governments. The president did not name the U.S. partner who had spearheaded the operation. (Journalists, immediately all over the astonishing story, would soon out Israel). But, more problematic, President Trump cavalierly identified the specific city in ISIS-held territory where the threat had been detected.
There are some petulant voices in official Washington who insist that the president’s treachery was deliberate, part of his longtime collaboration with the Russians. It is a true believer’s orthodoxy, one which predicts that the meeting will wind up being one more damning count in an indictment that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, will ultimately nail to the White House door.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip
ISRAELI COMMANDOS SECRETLY BUGGED AN ISIS HEADQUARTERS, THEN AFTER MONTHS OF LISTENING THEY LEARNED THAT ISIS WAS PLANNING TO MAKE BOMBS OUT OF LAPTOP
COMPUTERS. THE ISRAELIS PASSED THE INFO ON TO THE CIA WHO INFORMED TRUMP AND THEN...
They did. It was a much-admired, as well as appreciated, gift—and it scared the living hell out of the American spymasters who received it
a beaming President Trump huddled in the Oval Office with Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak.
“I get great intel,” the president suddenly boasted, as prideful as if he were bragging about the amenities at one of his company’s hotels. “I have people brief me on great intel every day.”
He quickly went on to share with representatives of a foreign adversary not only the broad outlines of the plot to turn laptop computers into airborne bombs but also at least one highly classified operational detail—the sort of sensitive, locked-in-the-vault intel that was not shared with even Congress or friendly governments. The president did not name the U.S. partner who had spearheaded the operation. (Journalists, immediately all over the astonishing story, would soon out Israel). But, more problematic, President Trump cavalierly identified the specific city in ISIS-held territory where the threat had been detected.
There are some petulant voices in official Washington who insist that the president’s treachery was deliberate, part of his longtime collaboration with the Russians. It is a true believer’s orthodoxy, one which predicts that the meeting will wind up being one more damning count in an indictment that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, will ultimately nail to the White House door.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip
