@mystery-ak That's the thing..I am not getting upset until there is more info on this story...anything that comes out of the WashPo is suspect at the very least.
Exactly right.
If you read the WaPo article closely, and look at other information out there, it becomes clear that this horrendous leak of
highly classified information was about....the threat from laptop computer bombs, which led to the laptop ban with which most of us are already familiar, and has been reported in multiple media outlets.
In other words, it's a
non-story. While the government has not come out and directly confirmed that the reason for the laptop ban is because of ME intel, it's something we all already knew anyway. So why it is still "classified", it is nevertheless widely known, and the Russians gained nothing by us telling them something they already knew. But because it still hadn't been formally declassified, anti-Trumpers in the media and elsewhere manufactured a story out of it.