A recent report claimed that U.S. intelligence officials, in a meeting with their Israeli counterparts, encouraged them to withhold information from President-elect Donald Trump and his administration based on the belief that Russia has compromised the incoming president — a belief that likely stems, at least partially, from the unverified, error-ridden report published Tuesday by BuzzFeed.

Israel’s Yediot Ahronot, a highly respected daily newspaper, published a report from investigative journalist Ronen Bergman that discussed a meeting “recently between Israeli and American intelligence officials (the date of the meeting is not mentioned to protect the sources of the report).”

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He continued:

During the meeting, according to the Israelis who participated in it, their American colleagues voiced despair over Trump’s election, as he often lashes out at the American intelligence community. The American officials also told the Israelis that the National Security Agency (NSA) had “highly credible information” that Russia’s intelligence agencies, the FSB and GRU, were responsible for hacking the Democratic Party (DNC) servers during the elections and leaking sensitive information to WikiLeaks, which hurt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The American officials further added that they believed Russian President Vladimir Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump – but did not elaborate. They were apparently referring to what was published Wednesday about embarrassing information collected by the Russian intelligence in a bid to blackmail the president-elect. The Americans implied that their Israeli colleagues should “be careful” as of January 20, Trump’s inauguration date, when transferring intelligence information to the White House and to the National Security Council (NSC), which is subject to the president. According to the Israelis who were present in the meeting, the Americans recommended that until it is made clear that Trump is not inappropriately connected to Russia and is not being extorted – Israel should avoid revealing sensitive sources to administration officials for fear the information would reach the Iranians.

Bergman told Breitbart that based on his sources’ information, the meeting likely took place before BuzzFeed published the dossier and that while the U.S. officials didn’t specifically discuss the dossier with the Israelis, they reportedly referenced supposed “leverage” Russian President Vladimir Putin has over Trump.

After the dossier went public on Tuesday, Bergman contacted his sources who told him that they speculated that the claim by officials that Putin has some sort of “leverage” on Trump could have resulted in part from the mysterious dossier.

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In addition to the fact that the BuzzFeed post of the dossier admitted that “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors,” take a look at what Breitbart reported about its likely highly politicized origins:

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported the author of the dossier was Christopher Steele, who serves as a director at the London-based Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., which has refused to comment on the reports of the document’s origin. In October, Mother Jones reported on the contents of the dossier, writing the information was produced by a former Western intelligence officer who was assigned to the task for the purpose of an “opposition research project originally financed by a Republican client critical of the celebrity mogul.” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released a statement yesterday that he had called Trump that day to tell him that the intelligence community “has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable.”

This whole fiasco is incredible and an example of the lengths both the left and establishment Republicans are willing to go to in an effort to discredit Trump — something that many supporters knew would happen.

Trump threatens the status quo and the powerful elites are not going to go down without a fight. It is laughable to see his opponents claim that his questioning of our intelligence agencies is “dangerous” yet they apparently don’t think reckless leaks with unverifiable claims and Obama administration intelligence officials potentially encouraging foreign countries not to cooperate with the incoming president based on them isn’t dangerous.

It is the definition of dangerous and it is the opposite of a peaceful transition of power.

Hopefully Israel sees through it, and they likely will, because this campaign by the Obama administration would be very dangerous for both countries if, based on unverified politicized reports, the Israelis weren’t able to work with U.S. intelligence. A new administration not bogged down in this politicized insanity should hopefully make a difference as well.

This extraordinary campaign against Trump makes it even clearer that he’s doing a lot of things right. That doesn’t mean that he’s perfect by any means, as no one is, of course, but if he’s got the status quo elites this rattled, he’s doing something right and I’d argue, quite a bit right.





