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President Trump complains repeatedly about leaks in Washington. He’s got a
bit of distinguished company.
“What I have found appalling is the number of leaks that have taken place
over the last several months,” former CIA Director John Brennan said at the
SALT conference in Las Vegas, the annual gathering of hedge-fund managers
and other financiers. “This needs to be stopped.” Brennan was CIA director
during President Obama’s second term, stepping down in January, when Mike
Pompeo replaced him.
Brennan said Trump made a “serious mistake” when he reportedly shared
sensitive intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, in an Oval Office meeting in early May. But this
mistake wasn’t sharing intelligence; it was violating the protocol for
doing so. “I shared intelligence with the Russians when I was the director
of the CIA,” Brennan said. “But you share that through intelligence
channels, and you make sure you word it in such as way as to not reveal
sources and methods. President Trump didn’t do that.”
Brennan said the press coverage of Trump’s impromptu intelligence reveal
was “hyperbolic” and possibly more damaging than anything Trump revealed.
“The damage that was done is what was leaked in the aftermath, what was put
in the media. The real damage to national security is the leaks.” He
suggested, without saying so explicitly, that news accounts revealed more
sensitive information than Trump did.
“The real damage to national security is the leaks,” Brennan said. “These
individuals who still stay within the government and are leaking this stuff
to the press need to be brought to task.”
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