Posted on 11/24/2018 2:13:07 PM PST by blam
The UK’s 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.”
Trump’s allies, however, are fighting back – demanding transparency and suggesting that the UK wouldn’t 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 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 Telegraph
The Telegraph adds that the UK’s 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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How can they stop Trump from doing something he won’t do in the first place? Sometimes, art of the deal is just hot air.
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They sound shaken. What stirred them to react?
If Trump doesn’t release the documents, it’s going to be a bad sign.
I am not buying this BS. If it exposes illegal activities so be it. We can’t have these intel agencies thinking they are above the law. Soon they will be spying on you and me.
Agreed. Think about America. Don’t worry about the UK. If they were good allies, they wouldn’t have done anything shameful. If they are ashamed, they are not good allies. Release the docs.
The UK has never done much for us and in 2016 they meddled in our election in a major way. It needs to be exposed. No great loss in my view if they get angry and quit talking to us..
That's the point you traitors...Your illegal intelligence gathering needs to be undermined because it's a serious threat to America's legitimate future...
Can we say English Collusion?
I believe that has been happening for years now.
So it sucks to get caught trying to influence our elections? Bummer, dude.
So the Brits “hacked our election” as the RATS would say.
Yes. English collusion to help Cankles.
He hasn’t and it is not.
I wonder how the M16 would react if they wanted to release documents that would exonerate charges against them and President Trump threatened sanctions if they did?
A secondary accomplishment of declassifying them would be to prevent Mueller from playing his game of “I’ll only testify in open session but will then say I can’t discuss the things you want answers for in open session”. Let’s outmaneuver Mueller and the ‘‘RATS.
MI6 is just as dirty at the top as the CIA. I’ve worked with both. The guys in the field work hard as follow rules, and orders while the guys in management and political appointees are all about power.
Both sets of dicks have broken their countries laws.
I think they wanted to sabotage Trump’s election because of his stand on Brexit. There were M14 allies in the UK who were against Brexit that conspired against Trump and continue to conspire.
I see what you did there ;)
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