Britain Condemns US Officials For Leaking Intelligence On Manchester Terror Attack

Business Insider ^ | 5-24-2017 | Adam Bienkov

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• 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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[The Toll]

You do realize it’s Illegal for the British people to speak the truth about Muslim Terrorists right? That kind of changes things.

[AndyJackson]

You do realize that it is illegal for those with access to shared intelligence, to share that with anyone not having both clearance and need to know, or mishandling information, such as passing on information marked "originator controlled" to anyone not specifically authorized by the originator (in this case the UK).

But you have the attitude that anti-Trump leaks are bad, but anti-Brit leaks are good. If there are reasons of state to divulge this information that decision needs to be made by Tillerson or Trump or Kelly or Mattis, not some deep-state bureaucrat being pally pally with his friends in the press.

[vicdoc]

Same blabber mouths trying to take down Trump leaking to show Trump can’t control them.

[Flying Circus]

The problem is I suspect it was not a Trump person who leaked. I believe the leaks are largely coming from Obama hold-overs that want to make Trump look bad.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I noticed that yesterday, when I was impressed the british were not publishing the name of the suicide bomber, but some (probably Obama-holdover) leaked the name here to Reuters.

i would love if they NEVER told us the name of suicide bombers. Just call them all “John Smith”. Don’t give them the satisfaction.

[caddie]

I think the UK is as much a festering abscess of potential terrorists as is Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Iran, you name it.

This guy was sitting for years in England as a known terrorist, ratted out by his parents no less, and the wimp UK MI 5 or MI 6 or whatever group of incompetents just sat there and watched him until he killed 20 people the other day.

What kept this guy from coming to NY and doing this there? Nothing.

So I condemn the UK for being a terrorist state, just like the scum muslim nations above.

FUUK!