Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally, Officials Say
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ERIC SCHMITTMAY 15, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details
that could expose the source of the information and the manner in which it was collected, a current and a former American government official said Monday.
The intelligence disclosed by Mr. Trump in a meeting with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister,
and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, was about an Islamic State plot, according to the officials.
The national security adviser discussed reports that President Trump boasted about highly
classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
"At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed, and no military operations were disclosed
that were not already known publicly." Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson echoed General McMaster, saying a range of subjects came up, including "the nature of specific threats," but not sources, methods or military operations.
" said H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, who attended the meeting.
that The president and the foreign minister reviewed common threats from terrorist organizations to include threats to aviation,
The president only discussed the common threats that both countries faced," said
Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser, who was also at the meeting.
But according to the officials, Mr. Trump discussed the contents of the intelligence, not the sources and methods used to collect it.