Posted on 05/27/2017 12:09:21 AM PDT by Winniesboy
Rex Tillerson’s unprecedented public apology in person shows seriousness of rift over intelligence sharing...
The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has flown to the UK to deliver in person an apology for leaks by US officials of details of the police investigation into the Manchester bombing.
Tillerson, who met the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said: “We take full responsibility for that and we obviously regret that that happened. With respect to the release of information inappropriately … certainly we condemn that.”
Such a public apology by a senior US politician – and flying to London specifically to make it – is unprecedented in US-UK relations. That the Trump administration felt the need to make such a gesture illustrates the seriousness of this week’s rift.
The Greater Manchester police force and the London-based counter-terrorism team suspended intelligence sharing with the FBI and other police counterparts on Thursday but it was restored after Donald Trump intervened to say the justice department would investigate the leaks.
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