Posted on 11/22/2018 10:31:05 AM PST by dennisw
MI6 chiefs are secretly battling Donald Trump to stop him publishing classified information linked to the Russian election meddling investigation.
The UK is warning that the US president would undermine intelligence gathering if he releases pages of an FBI application to wiretap one of his former campaign advisers.
However Trump allies are fighting back, demanding transparency and asking why Britain would oppose the move unless it had something to hide.
It forces the spotlight on whether the UK played a role in the FBI's investigation launched before the 2016 presidential election into Trump campaign ties to the Kremlin.
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 don’t 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 current row is deemed so politically sensitive that staff at the British embassy in Washington DC have been barred from discussing it with journalists.
Theresa May, who already has a testing relationship with Mr Trump, has also been kept at arms-length and is understood to have not raised the issue directly with the US president. Trump's two-year headache
The row is about an FBI request to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, which was made in October 2016 - the month before the US election.
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Don’t be sad about this UK government, they shud all be swinging from nooses......they are trying to give us away to the EU, now.
I hope Trump publishes it all and causes May to fall.
I think they were just looking for dirt on Trump....but before the election....
There would be zero consequences for the Brits, Aussies or American intelligence agencies if Hillary had won. Didn’t American pollsters tell the world Hillary had a 99% lock on becoming President of the U.S. In the 2016 Presidential election? Colluding with the Obama administration and spying on Americans involved in the Trump campaign is very nasty business. How much money did the Aussie Government and the British Government contribute to the Clinton Foundation? The Pee Pee dossier paid for by the DNC and Hillary Campaign is chock full of unverified information supplied by British Intelligence (Steele and his compatriots)) American intelligence ( Mifsud and Halper and others) Muslim Brotherhood supporter Khashoggi, and Russian current or former spies.
Now it appears it was American and Brit intelligence who colluded with Russians to help elect Hillary and hurt Trump.
Pretty please President Trump release all the dirty spying info. Also the FISA court applications. I believe Supreme Court Justice John Roberts appointed and oversaw the FISA court judges. So what did John Roberts know and why did he allow the FISA court to be corrupted?
> “Maybe Britain is now an ENEMY.”
The British LEFT is the enemy. The leftists there, especially in London, are as nasty as they can get. They hate Trump with a passion. Much of the British MSM is worse than the USA’s MSM.
London, like big cities in the USA, is full of high-priced lawyers (solicitors) and arrogant bankers. They fancy themselves as ruling class and will not abide anyone who was ‘not selected into membership’ by them. They are in the same league as the unhinged leftists we see in the USA.
But Britain is waking up, Tommy Robinson movement, Nigel Farage, Andrew Leadsom, Dominic Raab, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and many others are catching the eye of the British public as perspectives change.
As Nigel Farage has stated, Brits are searching for their Winston Trump.
The Saudi Royals and all their money and bankers have had an enormous impact on British governance. Now that it appears President Trump has the Saudi Crown Prince in his control (Khashoggi), the Trump force projection should grow stronger in Britain.
Sometimes people need to see it in print.
I think he very well may do so. But despite the Dems taking the House and the Senate a black hole under Burr I think Trump has one more move to pursue the authors of the coup from HRC on down. He has the power to create a Presidential Commission to investigate the coup by directing the Commission to focus on corruption within the DOJ/FBI that Nunes has uncovered. However I become increasingly convinced each day that he is saving this scandal to use in his re-election campaign in 2020.
So many traitors . ..so little time...
Likely as not...they have been granted plenty of time to protect their people if that is their real concern....
We must see the FISA docs. They will expose the entire cabal, foreign and domestic.
Australian Govt gave 25 million to the Clintooon Foundation. Story goes that this was arranged by Alexander Downer who was involved in the anti-Trump coup by ensnaring Popadopalous in Europe.
More “deep state” tyrants...they are everywhere . Expose these fascist bums. Let light shine on these criminals .
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