Should-Read: Howard Blum: Exclusive: What Trump Really To...

Should-Read: Howard Blum: Exclusive: What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned: "An Israeli source told Vanity Fair... a small group of Mossad officers and other Israeli intelligence officials took their seats in a Langley conference room on a January morning just weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump...

...As the meeting was about to break up... an American spymaster solemnly announced there was one more thing: American intelligence agencies had come to believe that Russian president Vladimir Putin had ���leverages of pressure��� over Trump.... Israel, the American officials continued, should ���be careful��� after January 20���the date of Trump���s inauguration. It was possible that sensitive information shared with the White House and the National Security Council could be leaked to the Russians. A moment later the officials added what many of the Israelis had already deduced: it was reasonable to presume that the Kremlin would share some of what they learned with their ally Iran, Israel���s most dangerous adversary.

Currents of alarm and anger raced through those present at the meeting, says the Israeli source, but their superiors in Israel remained unconvinced���no supporting evidence, after all, had been provided���and chose to ignore the prognostication...