ok the press needs to chill with leaking classified information too though, no one knew it was from israel and no one knew specifically what it was until the press clarified in order to hurt trump, as entertaining as it is. leaking to the russians was already terrible enough
Much as I love negative news about Trump, was it really necessary to report details of what he leaked to Russia? Unless I'm missing something in the story about the damage being done, wouldn't keeping the details quiet still have been prudent?
Eh. If the press is able to get hold of this information, that means that all the relevant players already would have had it as well. If the NYT sources can get this info, no way their sources wouldn't have been able to. That seems tenuous at best.
The point of the press reporting on this is that while various intelligence agencies likely knew all this at this point, the public doesn't. They're reporting on it to establish just how huge the nature of Trump's leak was and to keep the administration from being effectively able to minimize it or treat it as if it wasn't a big deal at all, due to only vague details being available. The damage has already been done from the leak itself, and from the combination of that and the initial news stories, there's really little doubt all the relevant players wouldn't be able to figure out what's going on. This just seems to be about keeping pressure on the Trump administration, not letting them minimize the nature of the leak of information, and letting the public understand just how much of a big deal Trump's misconduct really was.
That's the way I'm understanding it anyway. I could quite easily be mistaken, of course (and quite possibly am), but that's my grasp of the situation from the various stories I've read about this.
