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Originally Posted by Damien
Not if the information is classified no.
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the FBI issued a rare statement saying that it had had "limited opportunity" to review the document before the House Intelligence committee voted to release it on Monday.
"We are committed to working with the appropriate oversight entities to ensure the continuing integrity of the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) process," the FBI statement added.
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I believe their concern is that by making the memo public, it will compromise how, and who from, some of the intelligence has been collected (sources and capabilities), thus making it unlikely those sources would ever provide further information.Also, the FBI believe the memo does not provide a full picture - it is using a sub-set of the info to provide a slanted picture.
Re the sources/capabilities, an example of this from my personal experience is that we (the RAF and USAF) used to send up SR71s to tool up and down the East German border (in the 70s and 80s, and this is common knowledge now, no longer classified) to measure the response not only of the Sov Air Force, but also to monitor their radar, radio traffic, and ground to air Elint - if they had known we were doing this, it would have diminished our Sigint collection capabilities.
A previous example is this -
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...ship-1.5473028
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According to the reports in American media, confirmed largely by Trump's tweets and his spokesman Sean Spicer, the intelligence Trump shared with the Russian foreign minister concerned plans by ISIS to smuggle explosives aboard a civil airliner, disguised as a computer laptop. Throughout the previous decade when the U.S. fought al-Qaida in Iraq and Afghanistan, Israeli intelligence and military labs provided much of the information on jihadists' efforts to prepare more deadly types of improvised bombs for use against American troops.
Israel is the only country to have an intelligence relationship with the U.S. of an intimacy rivaling that of the Five Eyes group of the U.S., Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada which reaches back to the Second World War. According to the Wall Street Journal, the intelligence Trump divulged to Lavrov hadnt even been disclosed to the U.S.'s Five Eyes partners. That would be par for the course. Intelligence provided by one nation to an ally is for that allys eyes only. It is up to Israel to decide who else it wants to share it with (and in recent years, the level of cooperation with Britain and Australia is such that it may well have been shared with them as well, by Israel).
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