As longtime U.S. allies question the White House’s trustworthiness, Donald Trump is haunted by his record on mishandling classified intelligence.
Maddow Blog - Why some U.S. allies are reassessing intelligence sharing with the Trump administration
As longtime U.S. allies question the White House’s trustworthiness, Donald Trump is haunted by his record on mishandling classified intelligence.
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Maddow Blog - Why some U.S. allies are reassessing intelligence sharing with the Trump administration
As longtime U.S. allies question the White House’s trustworthiness, Donald Trump is haunted by his record on mishandling classified intelligence.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/us-allies-are-reassessing-intelligence-sharing-trump-administration-rcna195086
Complicating matters, the problem isn’t just intelligence coming out of the White House, it’s also intelligence going into the White House. NBC News reported:
Some U.S. allies are considering scaling back the intelligence they share with Washington in response to the Trump administration’s conciliatory approach to Russia, four sources with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News. The allies are weighing the move because of concerns about safeguarding foreign assets whose identities could inadvertently be revealed, said the sources, who included a foreign official.
The network’s sources said the reassessment of intelligence sharing protocols is driven, at least in part, by
“the Trump administration’s warming relations with Russia.”
Or put another way, it sounds as if some countries — traditional U.S. allies — worry that if they share sensitive information with Trump and his team, it might work its way back to Moscow......
But as Trump aligns the White House with the Kremlin, the fears about the trustworthiness of the American president appear to have reached a striking new level.
It’s difficult, of course, to blame traditional U.S. allies for being concerned. Not only is Trump cozying up to Moscow in ways his own former aides are struggling to understand, but the Republican is also haunted by a track record that includes mishandling classified documents and blurting out secrets for reasons unknown.
Indeed, around this time eight years ago, Trump welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak into the Oval Office — at Vladimir Putin’s request — for a visit that was never fully explained.
As part of the get-together, Trump reportedly revealed highly classified information to his Russian guests for reasons that have never been explained.
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