Last week, there were reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was planning to ban all laptops and tablets on planes coming out of the European Union related to a suspected ISIS plot. This was apparently also a topic of discussion in President Trump’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
That fact in and of itself isn’t anything too important: the speculation of a laptop bomb plot dates back months. Rather, some “current and former” US officials say President Trump revealed “top secret” informant about the ISIS plot and how the US came by it.
This apparently came in the form of Trump revealing that the intelligence came from a source in a certain ISIS city, which was not named in the media reports on it, but apparently which some US officials believe could be used to identify the source by the Russians, if they so choose. Officials subsequently publicly identified the nation that was the source as Israel, meaning they were so angry at Trump telliing Russia that they told everybody.
Obviously, Russia doesn’t like ISIS any more than the US does, and would have no reason to share this information with ISIS, though such common sense appears lacking in the endless and wildly speculative US hostility toward Russia.
Indeed, media speculation was rampant on the revelation, making the jump from the US having a foreign source in a certain ISIS city to the idea that same source, working for Israel might conceivably provide the US with information against Assad some day, and then concluding that Russia “would be keenly interested” in disrupting the source if that happens.
The White House immediately denied that any untoward disclosures occurred, insisting that the only information given to Russia was information that was already “publicly available” on the already well-publicized plot. President Trump, however, admitted to the disclosures on Twitter, insisting that as president he can do what he wants.
The same group of officials who were warning Trump against being on good terms with Russia insisted that today’s revelations were “shocking” and suggested they’d have far-reaching consequences for national security, even if they were consequences they didn’t seem able to specifically identify.
In practice the fallout will likely take place wholly in the media, for while several reports claimed Trump revealed things “he did not have permission to share,” legally speaking that’s not true at all, and the President has broad discretionary power on revealing classified information, meaning even if he did ultimately name a city, there is no legal ramification for having done so.
This story is plastered all over the place. What a joke.
No coverage of the crematorium story? I always thought anti-war still covered all stories.
Antiwar.com has never claimed to cover all stories, but that one is right up on the front page.
The story is about WHAT some buiditung COLD be, as oppose to what the building is & has been proven to be. How can anyone be sure of anything when the accuseres have unlímited money and favours to exchange for favorable coverage, favorable statements… and treatinig .their fake news seriously…
That “source” within ISIS is no doubt a Mossad
operative and explains, at least in part, the convulsions within the Main
Stream Media and Congress!
I agree with you 100%, Mark. ISIS is Israel’s closest ally. The Zionist Entity’s recent bombings of Syria are, in fact, aiding/abetting ISIS and other extremists in that country, and wounded Jihadists are transported to Israeli hospitals for treatment.
ISIS was created by both the CIA and Mossad shortly after Obama took office and withdrew US troops from Iraq, and the Obama Admin. has been funding and supplying arms to ISIS for 8 years.
Congress and the Left Stream Media have been lying about Trump’s so-called connections with Russia for some time. Russia’s not ignorant of Israeli support for ISIS .. So, rather than investigating collusion between Trump and Russia, they should be investigating collusion between Western powers – and especially Israel – with ISIS .. But you, I and many others know quite well that will never happen.
Good call.
OK — media keeps on pounding that whatever THEY define as anti-Russian, suddenly becomes US policy. I have no idea what the policy is — as it seems to include anything and everything, for as long as we like Zombies declare how much we hate Russians. I sense a problem here. For one, Russia has wiggled out of the anaconda embrace of internattional financial cartel. And another big sin — Russia is GMO free, with prohibition on using or importing GMO material. Somebody thinks these are some bad examples.for Americans. Somebody is afraid that we may discover that we have much more in common with Russian pioneer society then we think. Somebody is dead set that any attempt at learning more about common interests with Russia is met in some circles with hysterical fits. Why not ask them what exactly is sending them into fthese fits of rage. Other then thinking that somehow Russia posseses this magic weapon capable of delivering rlections, I just do not think that all this outrage is due to Crimea or Donbas.
Makes you wonder how much classified information US politicians have shared with israelis.
There can be no light between THE UNITED STATES and The State of Israel. This is the approved and recognized policy of the democratically selected people’s representatives of THE UNITED STATES. I’m sorry if you disagree with this policy, but since your opinion is not widely held, it is irrelevant. By the way, it is quite strange and revealing that you would seek to interject the State of Israel into a news piece about terrorist plots.
The President decides what is or isn’t top secret. Better to share with the Russians than with John McCain or Chuck Schumer.
Has the USA really gone completely bonkers? I wonder if Hillary had won as POTUS, and we were now in WW3 or in ashes if Trump would still be complaining about vote-fixing?
Trump IS still complaining about vote fixing.
The election is over….. Move On…..
Are you telling me or Trump? I have, he hasn’t.
The political circus of the last few months reminds me of Ryan Landry’s Bizarro World. Are these “statesmen” aware that their credibility is dissipating, both here and abroad?
Just wonderin’, but can anyone tell us how electing a non-politician “businessman” has solved any problems? It’s obvious that they don’t have a clue how to move in world diplomatic circles and the only “business” policies that have been pushed seem to only benefit the super wealthy like The Orange One and those like him.
Where are all those Executive Orders (Pronouncements) that were going to balance the scale for all those believers who have little in common with Donald but still voted this fool into office.
The mongers won’t be satisfied until they have a nuclear war with Russia and/or China.
If Blabbermouth Hillary had won the Presidency and have been alleged to have done this the compliant liberal Dem media would have been mum on the story.
True but then Fox news would have had a field day. Our polarization won’t ever allow a consensus on ANYTHING.
The big news story breaking on the murder of Seth Rich today is going to shake the hell out of the bs ‘Russian Narrative’ started by Clinton’s Campaign and the DNC. Burn baby burn! Let the truth will out…
The fact that CIA doesn’t want facts about ISIS to be shared verifies what we already know. ISIS = CIA.
More baseless bullshit. Will this stupid witch-hunt ever end?
The Washington Post is owned by Bezos, who has a 10 year $650 million contract with the CIA for internet services. The Democratic party, the deep state, the media, and the intelligence community — the CIA et al — have all been working tirelessly from election-day-plus-one to bring down the Trump presidency. They have placed their bets on the “treasonous cooperation with the Russian enemy” storyline as the centerpiece of the delegitimization/path-to-impeachment effort. A media defamation storm — “Russian interference!”, “Russian hacking!”, “Russian collusion!” — has been pumped relentlessly across the airwaves and in print since the Obama Admin assigned Comey and the FBI in July 2016 to investigate putatively “suspicious” connections between Russia and the Trump campaign et al.
The campaign of delegitimization has continued, and even intensified, despite eight months of investigation without a shred of evidence emerging to support the allegations. Now, on the occasion of the first official meeting of the President of the United States with Russia’s top diplomatic officials, we have “reports” of presidential misconduct/negligence in national security matters of the highest order!
Trump is a Russian spy! Oh please!!
This is a domestic false flag against the duly elected President. This is a soft coup by the intelligence community against American democracy. Knowledge of “highly classified material”– keep in mind it’s BS — supposedly revealed — again, more BS — by the President could only have come from leaks from the CIA, passed deliberately to The Washington Post which has long served as the go to publisher for CIA domestic “perception management” efforts.
The default assumption in this matter can only be that this is an utterly transparent continuation of the ongoing effort by the IC/deep state to subdue/destroy an elected president. This is blatant, full-on treason.
The Washington Post is up to its eyeballs in treason.
Even if I didn’t already believe that Russigate was complete BS, my antenna would still be twitching because history shows that whenever the entire MSM throws a hissy-fit, in the end it turns out to be nonsense. The first time I realized this was when the Satanic Ritual Abuse hoax was finally revealed as a complete lie. I was really angry with myself because I fell for it, but when the truth came out, I said to myself, “How could I have possibly believed that black-robed Satanic pedophiles were having orgies with toddlers under daycare centers?” It’s prima-facie absurd. Yet this hoax lasted at least 15 years and 100 innocent people were sent to prison, even though there was never a scrap of evidence. 15 years, no evidence, 100 people in prison. It was what they call a Moral Panic. And I fell for it. I thought I was smart but here I was being a complete fool.
Luckily, Antiwar prepared me for the next media firestorm, the Iraq WMD hoax. The antiwar community knew all along that there was no WMD in Iraq, not because shapeshifting Martians came and told us, but because we knew about the testimony of Hussein Kamel and Scott Ritter, the latter of which was denounced by the MSM, plus the years of nothing being found. Madeleine Albright knew about Kamel’s testimony when she said that killing 500,000 Iraqi children was “worth it.” Hillary must have known, too, when she voted for the Iraq War. That’s why I consider them both blood-mad sociopathic mass murderers. But when does the MSM ever mention Hussein Kamel? Crickets.
So now we have Russiagate, with no evidence except the squirrely findings of a well-connected cybersecurity firm whose founder is a Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council. I can feel for all the Liberals falling for it. I was just like them at one time. I’ve learned a lot since then.
Better to give intel to Russia than Israel.
It’s just perfect… (For morons that is). Trump leaked these very important secrets…. Yes, in fact, So secret we cannot tell you what was leaked… Were these secrets our NUCLEAR plans of attack/defense in the event of war with Russia like those Pollard stole and gave to Israel… who then traded these stolen war plans to the USSR who was our direct adversary at the time…???
NO!!!!!!!
These secret(s), by all accounts concern ISIS and their ongoing attempts to put laptop bombs on civilian aircraft as a tactic in their WAR against US (USA) and our ALLIES, one of whom is Russia.. in the fight against ISIS….
Russia has been bombing the piss outta ISIS..
So why would any tanjental info about the infiltration of ISIS be likely to be leaked by Russia, our ally against the ISIS head choppers…???????? Don’t the Russians have a lot to lose too if ISIS gets such useful info???
If this is the best that Hillary and her “Forward Together” minions have got, then it would seem there is nothing to fear…. And maybe a few chuckles are in order….
As a bit of a Post Script, It seems so incredibly stupid for the Israelis to let themselves get themselves anywhere near thid
Incredibly, the fact that this secret and ‘shocking’ information came from Israel doesn’t even raise an eyebrow among our media overlords. Curious. Apparently, it’s just peachy that Israel knows everything about ISIS and can lead Washington around by the nose with its special knowledge. But Israel is forever the Good Guy and Russia is forever the Bad Guy. But what if this was a political fairy tale?
The super-duper, highly sensitive, ultra classified secret that Trump told to the Russians: America is covertly arming and backing ISIS… and Al-Queda … and 9-11 was an inside job with Israeli help.
This is TREASON!!!