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11:26 AM 6/17/2019 - U.S. Security Officials Still Consider Trump a Security Risk, and other stories

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11:26 AM 6/17/2019 U.S. Security Officials Still Consider Trump a Security Risk Monday June 17 th , 2019  at  11:23 AM 1 Share It wasn’t over. It still isn’t over.  Photo: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The 21st and 22nd paragraphs of a weekend New York  Times  report  on anti-Russian cybersecurity operations contained a harrowing detail. President Trump reportedly “had not been briefed in any detail” on the operations, “for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials.” That is to say, American national-security officials are declining to share Russia-related intelligence with the president of the United States because they view him as a security risk. The denouement of the Mueller report seemed to bury the question of secret Russian leverage over Trump. In the days after Attorney General William Barr delivered his misleading summary of its contents, Trump’s allies  decl