"This
is highly damaging for two reasons," said former CIA Deputy Director
Michael Morell about the reported reveal, which the White House denies.
"First, the Russians will undoubtedly try to figure out the source or
the method of this information to make sure that it is not also
collecting on their activities in Syria -- and in trying to do that they
could well disrupt the source."
"The second damage is that third
countries who provide the United States with intelligence information
will now have pause to do so if the United States is sharing such
information with the Russians without their permission," Morell said in a
conversation with CBS News' Scott Pelley.
Former CIA deputy director and CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell.
CBS News
Pelley asked Morell if he felt better that, according to National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster, no methods or sources were compromised.
"Not a lot better… but not sharing that source or method does not make any better the problems I outlined earlier," he said.
For more on this, watch the video in the player above.
Meanwhile,
a senior White House official, who was in the room with Mr. Trump and
the Russian officials, repeated what others have said today that The
Washington Post story isn't true. No classified information of any kind
was disclosed by Mr. Trump, no source information and no operational
information. The source told CBS News that the leaks are coming from
people who weren't there or no longer in the government at all.
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