.MaddowBlog: Did President Trump share classified information (again)?
Last week in Iran, officials tried and failed to launch a purported satellite, prompting Donald Trump to publish a tweet insisting the United States was involved in the incident. The point of the presidential tweet wasn’t altogether clear, though by most measures, Trump seemed to be taunting Tehran.
They noted the resolution on the image is higher than images available to anyone but the government. It could have come from a presidential intelligence briefing, they said. […] That may be true. While I won’t pretend to be an expert, presidents have declassification authority. In this case, it’s entirely possible that Trump was presented with a sensitive photograph; he declassified it; and he published it to Twitter.
I’m reminded anew of a recent column from the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, who explained that the American president and his allies have been “straining the covert alliance to the point that some insiders on both sides worry that trust and cooperation could eventually begin to erode.” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff suggested to Ignatius that the relationship will likely improve once Trump leaves office. He added, however, “There’s nothing I can say that will disabuse [U.S. allies] of concern about what this president might do with information that could be damaging to them.”
The Wall Street Journal added, “According to one U.S. official, the information shared was highly sensitive and difficult to acquire and was considered extraordinarily valuable.”
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