Here is a question that I have probably posed before, but I think it’s a fairly obvious one and I can’t understand why it isn’t getting asked more often? Stories like this appear to give away the farm to Russian intelligence. It must be feeling like Christmas every day to the folks in the Lubyanka. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
After all, US intelligence officials go before Congress, or on TV, and firmly refuse to give up the slightest specific information due to the paramount need to protect “sources and methods.” OK. But here in this story — one of so many like it lately — we are blithely told that the communications between Russian ambassador Kislyak and “the Kremlin” were intercepted — specific communications, that Russian intelligence can go back and pinpoint!
Now, I am not an intelligence expert, but people who are, sort of, tell me that no one with such training ever says anything important over a line they believe might be compromised [though they might deliberately spout disinformation]. Moreover, Kislyak’s communications with the Kremlin [more likely Smolenskaya Ploshchad] would have been encrypted. So, presumably, high-level US intelligence officials have just given the Washington Post indulgence to tell the Russians which specific lines, and what codes, they have cracked. WTF? They even continue to keep secret Cold War-era information of this sort, but this happened just a few months ago. So, my question is: if this is all true, who are the worst potential traitors in this picture? And if it’s politically-motivated and carefully-crafted BS, why is the Washington Post guilelessly publishing it like this?
Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador, U.S. intelligence intercepts show
WASHINGTONPOST.COM|BY GREG MILLER