US spies warned their Israeli counterparts to “be careful” about sharing intelligence with the White House after Donald Trump becomes president ,in case it was passed on to the Kremlin.
According to Israeli media reports, the US intelligence officials reportedly told the Israelis not to share sensitive information with Donald Trump’s aides until the incoming president’s relationship with Russia had been fully investigated.
The National Security Agency had “highly credible information” that Russian intelligence agencies were responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee servers during the election and leaking sensitive information to WikiLeaks, Americans told their Israeli counterparts.
Top-classified information from Israel could be leaked to Russia and from there shared with Russia’s close ally Iran, the officials warned, Yediot Aharonot reported Thursday.
According to the newspaper, the warning came during a recent meeting between the two sides .In order to protect the participants exact date and place of the meeting were not reported.
The cause of the US intelligence concerns are the suspicions of ties between Trump or his associates and the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yediot reported.
The US officials also said that they believed Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump, which appears to refer to the news that broke this week in which Russia is alleged to have compromising personal and financial information about the president-elect.
Since the early 2000s, the cooperation between the Israel and US intelligence communities has been intensified.
In response to the reports, Donald Trump has strongly denied that Russia has any leverage over him.He tweeted that the “phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued”
