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‘Israel’ Said to Be Source of Secret Intel Trump Gave to Russians
Local Editor
The classified intelligence that US President Donald Trump disclosed in a meeting last week with Russian officials at the White House was provided by ‘Israel', according to a current and a former American official familiar with how the United States obtained the information.
The revelation adds a potential diplomatic complication to an episode that has renewed questions about how the White House handles sensitive intelligence.
‘Israel' is one of the United States' most important allies and runs one of the most active espionage networks in the Middle East.
However, Trump's boasting about some of ‘Israel's' most sensitive information to the Russians could damage the relationship between both parties and raise the possibility that the information could be passed to Iran, Russia's close ally and ‘Israel's' main threat in the region.
‘Israeli' officials would not confirm that they were the source of the information that Trump shared, which was about a Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] plot.
Trump said on Twitter that he had an "absolute right" to share information in the interest of fighting terrorism and called his meeting with the Russians "very, very successful" in a brief appearance later at the White House.
On Capitol Hill, reaction split along party lines, but even many Republicans indicated that they wanted the White House to show more discipline.
"There's some alignments that need to take place over there, and I think they're fully aware of that," said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. "Just the decision-making processes and everybody being on the same page."
In the meeting last week, Trump told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Russian ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, details about the Daesh plot.
At least some of the details that the United States has about the Daesh plot came from the ‘Israelis', said the officials, who were not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Source: NYT, Edited by website team
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