Posted on 05/25/2017 9:59:56 AM PDT by blam
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Overnight saw one of the closest intelligence-sharing partnerships tested as never before in the fight against global terrorism, as Prime Minister Theresa May confronted President Donald Trump over U.S. media leaks from the Manchester bombing probe.
As Bloomberg reports, police investigating the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a pop concert in the city in northern England have suspended sharing information with the U.S., according to a report by the security correspondent of the BBC.
“I will make clear to President Trump that the information shared between our law-enforcement agencies must remain secure,” May told reporters.
U.K. police said late Wednesday that leaks to American media amounted to a breach of trust and undermined their investigation into the attack, stepping up criticism earlier from Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
The BBC reported that U.K. officials were furious about a story in the New York Times on Wednesday that included photos of the crime scene. The story didn’t cite a source, and neither the U.K. government nor police commented on the piece.
A senior White House official said that the leaks only underscored the president’s assertion that U.S. authorities should investigate the intelligence community to see who is doing the leaking. The source pointed out that the BBC report specified that the U.S. law officials were the source of the leaks — not the White House.
“These leaks were reprehensible, deeply distressing, we unequivocally condemn them,” U.S. acting ambassador in London, Lewis Lukens, said on BBC Radio.
“The U.S. government is launching an investigation into these leaks and will take appropriate action if they are in the U.S.”
Trump was also clearly angered also and made a statement this morning regarding the leaks..
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There were hundreds of twitter pictures posted of the crime scene as soon as the smoke cleared
The bomber’s id still showed his name
whoever could have leaked a photo of the crime scene?
Trump’s fault
/sarc
The source pointed out that the BBC report specified that the U.S. law officials were the source of the leaks — not the White House.
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If Theresa May and others think that President Trump runs the media, talking heads and radio show hosts in America they are dumber than I thought...
Actually they are, they voted in a Muslim for Mayor so there you go...you get what you ask for!!!
Too many Obama appointees still working. The swamp has not been drained yet Mr President. Will it be?
Trump told the Brits to complain about this to bolster his position.
Sessions should get a search warrant for the NYT offices and raid them. The NYT knows the leaker and is trying to destroy a alliance to spite Trump.
The Deep State has gone after Trump directly. Now they are going dismantle U.S. Intelligence tools so we can enjoy Islamic attacks.
We really need to start executing some of these traitors to improve their work habits.
The swamp is still growing as we speak.
The US media couldn’t leak it unless they got it from a Brit...
unless OUR DEEP STATE WAS INTERCEPTING INTERNAL UK COMMUNCATIONS
Theresa May needs to take her plunger to MI5
I wished that I could do minute by minute search of Google re where and when the name Salman Abedi first appeared as the attacker.
The so called exposure could mean that there a few journalists out there, who can do research instead of lying.
The UK equivalent of the NSA (National Security Agency) would be GCHQ.
May should temporarily make Five Eyes Four Eyes until the deep state is destroyed.
Time to fire anyone even remotely associated with Obama and the Democrats. If not fire them, then reassign them to some very remote Alaska island location. A listening post with no Internet. Just weekly mail flight. Let them listen to radios and write written reports.
“The source pointed out that the BBC report specified that the U.S. law officials were the source of the leaks — not the White House.”
The left is doing to Republicans what they do every election. They are trying to marginalize the DOJ so they can commit crimes without fear of investigation.
I think there are still questionable people on the NSC... like Victoria Coates (former advisor to Ted Cruz), as well as some that Trump has put there but were career state department people, former GWB people, etc.
On Wednesday, The New York Times posted photos that show what it said could be the detonator, a battery, nuts and screws for shrapnel, and fragments of a backpack used in the attack.
The paper, without specifying the source, said British authorities provided access to photos of materials found at the scene.
The above and more photos are from CNN which apparently got them from the New York Slimes.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/europe/gallery/manchester-terror-attack-nyt/
.... the culprit should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law...
The culprit?? There’s a rats’ nest full of these cockroaches. They all need to be neutralized.
How do they know that British Intelligence didn’t leak them to the NY Slimes? I realize that our intelligence community can’t be trusted, but can the Brits really be trusted since one of their ex-agents was involved in the creation of that phony Russian dossier.
Drain the F’n Swamp - Big Time.
That should be the first thing he does when back Stateside.
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