Security Leakers Lose Trust

I notice the news media seems to have largely missed the point in the Trump -Russia meetings. Trump blurted classified information which by that voluntary action declassified it. The howls for treating him as the GOP would have treated Hillary are true to fact but useless. The GOP is not hostile to nor bent on destroying Trump. The salient point is the damage done to our national security apparatus which cannot be undone while Trump holds office. Allies will no longer freely share data that may reach the loose lips and eager-to-please Russia commander in chief. Russia, Mr. Lavrov in particular, has achieved a powerful moment over the US. By virtue of the meeting and the exclusive broadcast back to Russia, Russia has diminished US intelligence capacity. The pipeline now will reflect the guarding needed to protect sensitive data from Trump. It appears that the Russians have weakened our national security apparatus for the price of a round trip airfare Moscow to Washington. hdm