Reprinted from The Washington Post – By Amber Phillips – The fact that President Trump shared uber-secret information about the Islamic State with the Russians has intelligence officials in the know completely flabbergasted.
“Does he understand what’s classified and what’s not?” a former intelligence official told The Washington Post’s Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe, who broke the story on Monday. “That worries me.”
But since getting elected, Trump has had a track record of questioning, worrying, and even directly upsetting, the thousands of men and women who collect and analyze the nation’s top secrets. Here’s a rundown:
- Questioning their, well, intelligence
- Comparing them to Nazi Germany
- Saying he’s too smart for briefings
- Talking about crowd size in front of the CIA’s sacred wall
- Sharing highly classified information with the Russians
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