AP Explains: Trump disclosure a breach of trust, if not law

[mystery-ak]

 Associated Press
By JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press
6 hrs ago

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump didn't appear to break any law by sharing highly classified information with Russia, but that doesn't make it any less problematic for America's intelligence agencies and their overseas partners.

Even as Trump's national security adviser insisted the Oval Office disclosure to visiting Russian diplomats was "wholly appropriate" and routine, few people outside of the White House saw it that way. Especially troubling was that a foreign country provided the intelligence confidentially to the U.S.

A look at the legal and national security issues at stake:

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[Right_in_Virginia]

First sentence is 

President Donald Trump didn't appear to break any law by sharing highly classified information with Russia

Ignore the rest and let this story die a timely death.

[Free Vulcan]

Well the Left can't fall back on the law, so now it falls to morality. Which is ironic considering their insistence on Separation of Church and State.

[beandog]

I find it rather funny that the AP (Almost Pravda) says anything about "breach of trust" since the entire media has breached the public's trust in them for years now.

[anubias]

"AP Explains" was enough for me and as far as I got.  Really?  Like we need the AP of all news outlets to explain things to us? 

[skeeter]

Read: its not the content but the seriousness of the charge.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

So what does that make the WA Post that reported on this threat a couple months back?

AP Explains = You are too stupid to understand, believe what we tell you to believe.