Parce que Donald Trump a coulé des informations classifiées à de nombreuses reprises, les autorités américaines ont été forcées de rapatrier un espion américain proche de Vladimir Poutine. S'il y en encore de nombreux partisans du président, il n'est plus possible de nier que le président représente un danger pour son propre pays. Placer un espion aussi près du dirigeant russe est un tour de force et le remplacer ne peut se faire que sur une très longue période.
"The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.
The disclosure to the Russians by the President, though not about the Russian spy specifically, prompted intelligence officials to renew earlier discussions about the potential risk of exposure, according to the source directly involved in the matter.
At the time, then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo told other senior Trump administration officials that too much information was coming out regarding the covert source, known as an asset. An extraction, or "exfiltration" as such an operation is referred to by intelligence officials, is an extraordinary remedy when US intelligence believes an asset is in immediate danger."
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