Posted on 05/24/2017 5:00:40 AM PDT by blam
• Several key details about the investigation into the Manchester terror attack were leaked to the media by US officials.
• The Home Secretary suggests the "operational integrity" of the investigation was at risk.
• British officials have expressed their "irritation" to the US.
• Trump administration has come under scrutiny for leaks of confidential intelligence.
LONDON — Home Secretary Amber Rudd condemned US officials for risking the "operational integrity" of the ongoing investigation into the Manchester terror attack, after they leaked confidential details to the US media before they had been confirmed by British police.
Business Insider reported on Tuesday how several key details on the attacker's identity had made their way onto US news channels — potentially compromising the ongoing investigation.
American news outlets confirmed that the information on Salman Abedi had been passed to them by US officials.
The Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the Today programme that she was irritated by the leaks.
"The British police have been very clear that they want to control the flow of information in order to protect the operational integrity, the element of surprise, so it is irritating if it gets released from other sources and I have been very clear with our friends that that should not happen again," she said.
When asked whether the leaks had "compromised" the investigation, she replied: "I wouldn't go that far," but added: "I can say that they are perfectly clear about the situation and that it shouldn't happen again."
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To put "operational integrity" at risk requires two elements that appear to be absent: a recognizable operation and integrity.
The main risk appears to be having a Home Secretary named "Amber."
No offense to Ambers who know what they're doing, or to fossilized tree sap.
More l;likely that the British would rather the rest of the world not see how they let this attack happen.
God forgive me but I can't stand that canting, posh-voiced, do-nothing prime minister! My husband and I always mock her as soon as she shows up on our tv screen. I'm sure she'll tell the Brits to go back to sleep and that there is nothing to see here.
Meanwhile, Katie Hopkins is investigated for her tweets.
Very abusive language for Hillary’s deep state crowd to be using.
And, were the British to know all, they would still carry on without any reprisal. Who do the Brits think they are fooling? What do they want to investigate, or better, why bother?
All of the leaders over there, in their own little world!
It’s like watching a slow suicide by a thousand cuts.
Obama era collusion to control the narrative is out the window blokes. So sad.
Sanity is having no brain at all.(Or one could simply stop MSM altogether.)
“A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.”
William Blake.
Has Merkel advised Britain to train muslims as theater ushers yet?
:: American news outlets confirmed that the information on Salman Abedi had been passed to them by US officials ::
Looks like some ^swamp draining^ needs to happen at the CIA. I’d conjecture that POTUS isn’t on-board with such info-trading between HMSS-CIA-FAKEstream Media.
Amber Rudd has criticised US security services for leaking information relating to the Manchester terror attack with the Home Secretary warning Washington it must not happen again.
A number of details including the identity of the attacker and the death toll entered the public domain in the immediate aftermath of the suicide bombing with the information reportedly leaked by security officials in America.
Ms Rudd described those leaks as “irritating” as she said that the UK had told its key security ally to stop releasing information which British police do not want publicly known.
Katie Hopkins’s career at the DM was toast the minute the SKY takeover deal was signed.
British intelligence evidently had a dossier on the terrorist and are peeved that it was made public.
Fake news
Retribution for the stories linking the Brit intel units to spying on Trump and the other US Presidential candidates
I fixed it.
Oxymoron.
So one of the four usual suspects (NYT, WaPo, ABC, CNN) contacted Amber Rudd and said: “Unnamed executive branch officials just leaked that the BBC is reporting it was a Muslim male suicide bomber — not a gas leak as intelligent people everywhere naturally assumed. You condemn them for telling us that, don’t you?”
Coup leaders let no crisis go to waste.
Does Rudd honestly believe that anyone in the bombers orbit didn’t know who done it immediately or and that those physically involved needed to wait for news reports to go underground?
Details that were speculation before they were confirmed.
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