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Originally Posted by octothorp

So allegedly people within the US intelligence community have been telling their associates inside Israeli intelligence to be very careful about what they share going forward, on the fears that it could be shared with Moscow and then on to Tehran.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...906642,00.html

The number of reports coming from different international sources is what makes this look like there's a real fire in the intelligence community behind all this smoke.

Beat me to it. Was just about to post the same article, which was linked from this Rolling Stone piece by Matt Taibbi.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...-point-w460806

Meanwhile, Ynet in Israel is reporting that Israeli intelligence officials are deciding not to share intelligence with the incoming Trump administration. The report indicates they came to this conclusion after a recent meeting with American intelligence officials, who told them the Russians have "leverages of pressure" to use against Trump.

This is an extraordinary story. If our intelligence community really believes this, then playtime is over. No more Clapper-style hedging or waffling. If Israel gets to hear why they think Trump is compromised, how is the American public not also so entitled? But if all they have are unverifiable rumors, they can't do this, not even to Donald Trump.

The only solution is an immediate unveiling of all the facts and an urgent public investigation. A half-assed whispering campaign a week and a half from a Trump presidency, with BuzzFeed at the center of the action, isn't going to cut it. We need to know what the likes of Clapper and Comey know, and we need it all now, before it's too late.