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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTPM - Marshall - "They Were Warned!"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/they-were-warnedBy JOSH MARSHALL Published MAY 16, 2017 2:22 PM
We now have a report that the allied intelligence service whose intelligence President Trump shared with Sergei Lavrov was an Israeli intelligence agency. My best guess was Jordan. Shows what I know.
What is remarkable about this is that reports in the Israeli press from January said that US intelligence officials had warned their Israeli counterparts about sharing intelligence with President Trump because of fears he might share such intelligence with Russia.
Really.
Heres my post from January 13th of this year. And heres a passage from one article that appeared at the time in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth
These fears, which began upon Trumps election, grew stronger following a meeting held recently between Israeli and American intelligence officials (the date of the meeting is not mentioned to protect the sources of the report). During the meeting, according to the Israelis who participated in it, their American colleagues voiced despair over Trumps election, as he often lashes out at the American intelligence community. The American officials also told the Israelis that the National Security Agency (NSA) had highly credible information that Russias intelligence agencies, the FSB and GRU, were responsible for hacking the Democratic Party (DNC) servers during the elections and leaking sensitive information to WikiLeaks, which hurt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The American officials further added that they believed Russia President Vladimir Putin had leverages of pressure over Trump but did not elaborate. They were apparently referring to what was published Wednesday about embarrassing information collected by the Russian intelligence in a bid to blackmail the president-elect.
The Americans implied that their Israeli colleagues should be careful as of January 20, Trumps inauguration date, when transferring intelligence information to the White House and to the National Security Council (NSC), which is subject to the president. According to the Israelis who were present in the meeting, the Americans recommended that until it is made clear that Trump is not inappropriately connected to Russia and is not being extorted Israel should avoid revealing sensitive sources to administration officials for fear the information would reach the Iranians.
Im not sure theres really anything to add. But its amazing that these precise warnings appear to be borne out.
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TPM - Marshall - "They Were Warned!" (Original Post)
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FakeNoose
(32,620 posts)1. Yes I believe this
The Israeli espionage - particularly against ISIS - is better than ours.
They have deep-cover operatives that can pass for Muslim and they speak and look Arabic already. The Israeli spies have been giving us stuff for years, but that's all going away now.
They'll never give us another thing as long as Cheeto 45 is in the White House.
thucythucy
(8,043 posts)2. The damage will be more lasting than that.
Right now Trump and his enablers are pushing competent people out of their jobs, and replacing them with who knows what kind of moles for Russia et. al. The longer Trump is in office, the less credibility US national security and intelligence agencies will have overall.
We may never recover from this, not in our lifetimes, anyway.