Compromises US intelligence on the day he fires Comey, according to the Washington Post.
This must be what made Clapper even more shrill after the Comey firing. When Clapper started equating the internal threat with that of our enemies, I wondered why the sudden scaling up of rhetoric. He must have known that:
Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information Trump relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.
And Clapper is right, this is wanton disregard for our national security. Real damage was done:
The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said that Trump’s decision to do so risks cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State.
For a variety of reasons, Trump is undermining our ability to gather intelligence while he is trying to stymie the FBI. I realize that he can declassify information if he wants to. But there is no reason in the world he needed to give specific information that threatened operatives of an ally, and there is no reason he should be doing this with Russia, a state which is clearly still working to undermine the US.
I have no idea how anyone, no matter what party, can avoid the conclusion that someone has to check his reckless exercise of power. Special prosecutor, yes. Impeachment proceedings, yes.