Kent Harrington shares the worries of the intelligence community, which has every reason to worry about Trump's deplorably loose tongue. What's worse is that he doesn't seem to learn from past mistakes, especially the one he made on May 10th, when he gave sensitive information to his two Russian guests - Sergey Lavrov and his Washington ambassador, Sergey Kislyak - in the Oval Office.

The White House refused to comment on reports that Israel was the source of the intelligence, Yet during a news conference that he held in Israel with Benjamin Netanyahu he embarrassed his host, by volunteering a confession: “Just so you understand,” Trump announced, “I never mentioned the word or the name Israel in conversation. Never mentioned it during that conversation. They are all saying I did. So you had another story wrong. Never mentioned the word Israel.”

Not only did Trump insist that he had "absolute right" to share information with a hostile power, like Russia, he even confirmed that Israel was the unnamed ally that had provided sensitive intelligence to the US, that Trump then handed over to Russia. Israeli officials were concerned that if the source were identified, it would jeopardise the intelligence network or put the lives of informants at risk. Benjamin Netanyahu put on a brave face, suggesting ties with the US had not been affected by Trump's letting the cat out of the bag. But the intelligence community is hugely annoyed that Trump lacks the judiciousness to tell what is the right or wrong thing to do under certain circumstances.

