According to the agreement, the intelligence being shared would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications.
Lisa Kubiske, the US deputy chief of mission in the capital, Brasília, noted approvingly that counter-terrorism intelligence was shared across the government, but said people around the president seemed to want to conceal the Islamist threat – and co-operation with the US – from the public.
In asking congressional panels to investigate the NBC source, Trump wondered why "top secret intelligence" was "shared with NBC prior to me seeing it".
One document leaked by the fugitive Edward Snowden reveals that the protection extends when intelligence is shared with other countries outside the club (so called "third parties", a "second party" being any other member of the club).
The murder of Victoria Climbié was supposed to create a watershed moment for the civil service but, almost a decade after the report into her death called for fundamental change, too little has evolved in the way that government intelligence is shared and pooled.
The property being ascribed to plants as intelligence is shared by all organisms, even the single-celled amoeba.
The new scheme aims to ensure intelligence is shared and other bodies, such as social services, are kept informed of cases.
Europe has not made widespread changes to how intelligence is shared, and the attacks in Paris and Brussels have renewed calls for greater cooperation and intelligence sharing in fighting terrorist networks.
British intelligence is shared directly with the US military, which has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State positions for the past 10 days.
