{"id":36410,"date":"2017-05-16T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=36410"},"modified":"2017-05-16T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:04:18","slug":"israel-reportedly-provided-intelligence-trump-disclosed-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israel-reportedly-provided-intelligence-trump-disclosed-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel reportedly provided intelligence Trump disclosed to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Israel was the source of the highly classified intelligence President Donald Trump disclosed to Russian officials, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/16\/world\/middleeast\/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html?action=Click&amp;contentCollection=BreakingNews&amp;contentID=65307282&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;_r=0\">report by The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36411\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-bibi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36411\" class=\"wp-image-36411 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-bibi-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15:  (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shake hands following a joint news conference at the East Room of the White House February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu for talks for the first time since Trump took office on January 20.  (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-bibi-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-bibi.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36411\" class=\"wp-image-36411 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-bibi-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15:  (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shake hands following a joint news conference at the East Room of the White House February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu for talks for the first time since Trump took office on January 20.  (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-bibi-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-bibi.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-36411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and President Donald Trump shaking hands after a joint news conference at the White House, Feb. 15, 2017. (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post reported Monday that Trump revealed the intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.N. Ambassador\u00a0Sergey Kislyak in an Oval Office meeting last week. The intelligence concerned a terror plot by the Islamic State involving the use of laptops on aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Times reported that, according to a current and a former American official, it was information that Israel relayed to the United States.\u00a0The intelligence was deemed too classified to share with other U.S. allies, let alone a rival state like Russia, the Washington Post\u2019s sources said.\u00a0Russia is the main supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad and an ally of Iran, one of Israel\u2019s principal adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>The country supplying the intelligence to the United States was identified in the Post story only as \u201can ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel and the United States are close allies whose leaders often refer to the countries\u2019 \u201cspecial relationship.\u201d The United States provides Israel with some $4 billion of defense assistance annually, and the countries share intelligence and participate in joint military exercises. Trump will be visiting Israel next week on his first foreign trip as president.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Sean Spicer did not comment on The New York Times report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the relationship we have with Israel and appreciate the exchange of information we have with them,\u201d Spicer said in a news briefing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Dermer, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United States, also did not comment directly on the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael has full confidence in our intelligence-sharing relationship with the United States and looks forward to deepening that relationship in the years ahead under President Trump,\u201d Dermer\u00a0said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In January, an Israeli <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4906642,00.html\">newspaper<\/a>\u00a0reported that American intelligence officials warned their Israeli counterparts not to share sensitive information with the Trump administration because of the threat that it could be leaked to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>At a news briefing Tuesday, H.R. McMaster, the president\u2019s top security adviser, discussed the meeting between Trump and the Russian diplomats, in which he took part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the context of that discussion, what the president discussed with the foreign minister was wholly appropriate to that conversation and is consistent with the routine sharing of information between the president and any leaders with whom he\u2019s engaged,\u201d McMaster said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israel%20reportedly%20provided%20intelligence%20Trump%20disclosed%20to%20Russia\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,8788,458,518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36412,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36410\/revisions\/36412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}