Defends 'absolute right' to share 'facts' with Russia
16 May 2017
... National Security Adviser HR McMaster told reporters ... "At no time - at no time - were intelligence sources or methods discussed. And the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known" ...
... Post reporter Greg Jaffe said ... "Our story says that the nature of the information provided would have allowed the Russians to 'reverse engineer' to discover the sources and methods. He said so much that they could figure it out" ...
Despite the denials issued by the White House that any actual intelligence sources were revealed to the Russians, whatever was said in that Oval Office meeting was enough to alarm certain officials and, reportedly, to alert the CIA and NSA.
They in turn will have needed to warn the country that supplied the intelligence. There is a golden rule in the world of espionage that when one government supplies intelligence to another it must not be passed on to a third party without permission of the original supplier. The reason is simple: it could put the lives of their human informants at risk ...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39937258
