So multiple people learned of this event, and went out and leaked it (which is illegal to do for most anyone besides the President, the WaPo helpfully notes), not just with the WaPo’s two reporters, but with reporters from Buzzfeed, NYT, WSJ, and more. They leaked it to reporters who they presumably knew would then report it, alerting the frustrated ally that Trump had shared the information, which is a blow to that relationship, and also alerting the frustrated ally that they then proceeded to go leak it more.
I’m confused, is that a blow to that relationship too, leaking the sharing so it can be revealed? Or did, say, the Saudis call up a bunch of members of Congress and former spooks and permit them to leak this to the press so Donald and his close relationship with the Russians can be undermined?
And these sources who are outraged that Trump shared the city where our frustrated ally that shouldn’t learn we’re leaking it without its permission learned of the plot? These sources shared plot details, including the name of the city, with journalists whose job it is to publish stuff like this, though the journalists didn’t share it with us or the Russians.
Now, I’ll grant you, WaPo’s reporters aren’t an adversary (depending on who you ask), though neither are they tasked with keeping a nation that has already lost a plane to ISIS safe. WaPo’s reporters aren’t fighting for power in Syria like Russia (and our frustrated ally), so they can’t personally use this information for advantage there.
So, yeah, it’s different. But these very outraged sources are still sharing the information that it is so outrageous to share.
Me? I’m hoping all this sharing and leaking about sharing will reveal what the underlying threat really is supposed to be. Because some of our frustrated allies have a habit of exaggerating threats so we implement stupid transportation policies and grow ever more reliant on their intelligence that they seem to keep sharing even though it seems to keep getting leaked.
The Israelis claimed that they produced this intelligence and gave it to the US.
Their response to Trump leaking it was a rather wide yawn.
We are all aware that Israel is a master of the “black arts.” They’re proud of that label.
Israel seems to know quite a bit about what ISIS is up to.
That infers that they have placed a Mossad agent in the leadership of ISIS.
Just how does Israel use the intelligence that they obtain?
Do they pass it on to the interested party?
Do they sit on it and allow certain ISIS operations to take place? For political reasons?
Trump might ask Netanyahu those questions when he visits him this weekend.
Israel is not to blame for us implementing stupid transportation policies. Nothing about Israel or the press mitigates the seriousness and ineptitude of tRump’s bragging intelligence details to the Russians.
I do wonder what Israel thinks of Iran getting that intel by way of Russia, though.