Posted on 11/24/2018 2:13:07 PM PST by blam
The UKs Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as MI6, has been scrambling to prevent President Trump from publishing classified materials linked to the Russian election meddling investigation, according to The Telegraph, stating that any disclosure would undermine intelligence gathering if he releases pages of an FBI application to wiretap one of his former campaign advisers.
Trumps allies, however, are fighting back demanding transparency and suggesting that the UK wouldnt want the documents withheld unless it had something to hide.
The Telegraph has talked to more than a dozen UK and US officials, including in American intelligence, who have revealed details about the row.
British spy chiefs have genuine concern about sources being exposed if classified parts of the wiretap request were made public, according to figures familiar with discussions.
It boils down to the exposure of people, said one US intelligence official, adding: We dont want to reveal sources and methods. US intelligence shares the concerns of the UK.
Another said Britain feared setting a dangerous precedent which could make people less likely to share information, knowing that it could one day become public. The Telegraph
The Telegraph adds that the UKs dispute with the Trump administration is so politically sensitive that staff within the British Embassy in D.C. have been barred from discussing it with journalists. Theresa May has also been kept at arms-length and is understood to have not raised the issue directly with the US president.
In September, we reported that the British government expressed grave concerns over the material in question after President Trump issued an order to the DOJ to release a wide swath of materials, immediately and without redaction.
Trump walked that order back days later after the UK begged him not to release them.
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- the UKs dispute with the Trump administration is so politically sensitive that staff within the British Embassy in D.C. have been barred from discussing it with journalists -
surely the FakeNewsMSM should be getting LEAKS about this and exposing it? they always do when it is something anti-Trump, even when it is fake news.
I’ve lost my respect for the British Government (I really once had some) since they now routinely tolerate abuse of their women, including rape, by muslims.
It’s a man thing! Meaning, as a man, I don’t like that. Pure and simple.
“Trump SHOULD declassify and release the documents.”
The reason why he hasn’t is because the corrupt state is refusing to release the docs and also threatening/blackmailing President Trump if he does. Mueller will add obstruction of justice to his long laundry list of crimes.
Trump needs to declare a national emergency and do an oval orfice address to the nation laying out this massive conspiracy of high treason. Call out the marines and get to it.
This must really stink to high heaven.
So much of what we know about the world is an illusion. Powerful forces spend eternity deceiving and manipulating us about the truth. In the end we are lead to believe only what they want us to believe. Will Donald Trump force the truth in this matter?
I anxiously await the answer. And the answer to that question will be an answer to who is Donald Trump.
Yup. European countries are tolerating and ignoring it. I'm sick.
If MI6 has done nothing wrong they have nothing to fear.
The fact that they are a’feared is an implicit confession of wrongdoing.
The U.K. was taken far left long ago. It’s understood.
They are an ally of convenience, theirs.
I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could toss a crate of tea. (For all S.A.’s here at FR that would be 270# per crate around the time of the Boston Tea Party.)
I’ll stick with reruns of The Sandbaggers.
I think hes holding it over Meullers head as a bargining chip. If Mueller leaves Trump alone, Trump doesnt declassify. I think that is Trumps thinking.
If Trump doesnt release the documents, its going to be a bad sign.
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He keeps putting it off and clearly doesn’t want to talk about it. What does that tell you? Despite what he said, Trump is never going to release them. In the unlikely event that he does, they will still be heavily redacted.
There was never any serious commitment to “immediately” declassify and release the FISA docs. That statement was made over two months ago and nothing has happened since other than to push the docs onto Horowitz who promptly buried them.
Its a shame. It was really important for the American people to see who was in the cabal and what they did against our country.
I saw what you did there! :-D
If there is any truth behind the obfuscation and omission, is that the British know their agents help corrupt U.S. officials attempt to frame Trump before he was even sworn in for what they know never happened. MI6 has undoubtedly has several copies of everything on Hillary’s server before the Russia collusion story started. They’re as guilty as hell and know it.
Oh, B.S. The sources are bloated nobodies like Stephen Halperin, who is only in danger of missing out on free appetizers at a party. The U.S. and U.K. conspired to frame a U.S. candidate for President and the protestations are a coverup.
You may be right but subversion and treason must be exposed. The American people need to see what went on. It was a terrible crime and we were led to believe that the FISA docs would be declassified thereby exposing this traitorous cabal. Its looking like we were played.
Agreed. Think about America. Dont worry about the UK.
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Yes. What happened to putting America First?
That would be a bad deal.
“What does that tell you?”
It tells me that our entire corrupt stasi state is in open rebellion to Trump. Which has been known to most rational people here for the past few years.
“Soon they will be spying on you and me.”
I’m confident to say they actually do.
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