Mod: Trump has leaked sensitive intelligence to our enemies many times. Is it different now?
Donald Trump's Israel Intel Leak Under Scrutiny After Hamas Attack (Newsweek link): Donald Trump's sharing of alleged classified intelligence to Russian officials in the White House has come under scrutiny amid a large-scale attack by the Hamas Islamist military group against Israel.
In
May 2017, the former president defended his actions after he was found to have discussed sensitive details about an alleged
Islamic State (ISIS) plot with
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the
Oval Office.
Trump said he had an absolute right to do so. The intel was said to have been provided to the
U.S. from
Israel.
It was suggested at the time that the former president's handing over sensitive information from
Israel could have damaged the relationship between the two countries. It also could have raised the possibility that the details could be passed from
Russia to
Iran, the
Gulf nation that is a fierce adversary of
Israel and has long supported
Hamas.
On Saturday, Hamas, designated a terrorist group by the U.S. and the European Union, launched a large-scale attack against Israel, resulting in the deadliest day of violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades. More than 700 people have been killed in Israel, and a further 400 in Gaza, since the incursion by Hamas, according to the Associated Press.
Thom Hartmann, author and political commentator, posted on
X, formerly
Twitter, while sharing a 2017 article from
The Washington Post: "
Hamas apparently knew how to get around
Israel's
Iron Dome defenses. They probably learned this from
Iran.
Iran almost certainly got the information from
Russia. And who gave it to
Russia? Sure looks like it was
Donald Trump, at the request of
Putin."
Trump has allegedly disclosed sensitive or classified national security secrets at least 10 Times (
AlterNet link): The latest allegations against
Donald Trump, that he disclosed national security secrets related to
America’s top secret nuclear submarines to a foreign national at his
Mar-a-Lago resort just months after leaving office, has experts raising alarms – especially as the ex-president is currently under indictment on
Espionage Act charges.
But the
Mar-a-Lago disclosure is far from the first allegation against
Trump for disclosing or revealing national security secrets, sensitive, or classified information.
MSNBC’s Steve Benen, a producer for The Rachel Maddow Show and editor of the MaddowBlog, put together a non-chronological list he calls, “The Top 10 Instances In Which Donald Trump Allegedly Shared Sensitive Information For Reasons Unknown.” As it turns out, just like the latest incident, at least two others involve nuclear submarine secrets.
Mod: The AlterNet article details 10 different occasions when Agent Orange ratted out American military secrets to hostile foreign leaders. Check it out. More at both links.
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