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.
“I was in the room — it didn’t happen,” Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, said in an appearance outside the West Wing, which was sent into chaos on Monday afternoon by reports
that the president had disclosed extremely sensitive information about an Islamic State plot.
President Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R.
McMaster, took questions about whether President Trump shared classified information with Russian dignitaries in an Oval Office meeting.
“To compromise a source is something that you just don’t do, and that’s why we keep the information
that we get from intelligence sources so close as to prevent that from happening,” Mr. Corker said, adding that he did not know independently if Mr. Trump had revealed sensitive information to the Russians.
Among the details the president shared was the city in Syria where the ally picked up information about the plot, though Mr. Trump is not believed to have disclosed
that the intelligence came from a Middle Eastern ally or precisely how it was gathered.