Furious’ British Police Suspend Intelligence Sharing with United States Following Manchester Bombing Leaks

[bostonangler]

Furious’ British Police Suspend Intelligence Sharing with United States Following Manchester Bombing Leaks

 

 

 

by Oliver JJ Lane25 May 20173,550

25 May, 201725 May, 2017

 

 

The world’s closest intelligence sharing arrangement is in jeopardy after key details and photographs from the Manchester bombing were apparently leaked by United States’s law enforcement sources to domestic journalists, leaving Manchester Police and the British government — who are collecting and analysing the finds — “furious”.

The United Kingdom has now stopped passing intelligence gathered as part of the investigation into the Manchester bombing to the United States according to claims made by the British state broadcaster BBC.

 

While British police had discovered the identity of Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber who killed 22 in Manchester on Monday, the name was withheld from the media initially for operational reasons. Yet less than 24 hours after the attack took place, American newspapers citing “government sources” were able to name the attacker.

Later further leaked intelligence including detailed crime scene information, and photographs of shrapnel, a backpack, and a battery were released by The New York Times. The BBC report states the “likely” culprit of the leaks are U.S. law enforcement officials who will have received access to the data through the transatlantic ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence sharing agreement, rather than the White House.

 

The nature and speed of the leaks by these U.S. officials have caused “disbelief and astonishment” in the British government.

The ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence sharing agreement, a treaty that dates back to the Second World War between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand means the involved nations have total unrestricted access to each other’s intelligence collection efforts. The geographical positions of the involved nations and their various ex-colonial outposts make the agreement not just unparalleled in openness, but also in global coverage for signals and other intelligence.

The agreement does, however, rely on each nation also respecting the security of each other’s intelligence — a principle that appears to have been seriously transgressed in this case.

 

Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports in the U.S. that officials with access to the shared Five Eyes intelligence “were openly briefing the media on what they had been told about Abedi and his ‘cell of Isis-inspired terrorists'”.

The British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to meet United States President Donald Trump at a NATO meeting today, and it is reported she will be raising concerns over the leaks with him there.

 

 

 

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/25/british-police-suspend-intelligence-sharing-united-states-following-manchester-bombing-leaks/

 

 

 

B/A

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Yup... ho'bummer's little tools-for-evil are still hard at work trying to undermine President Trump from within....

 

They still shoot traitors, don't they...

 

Oh, yuh, they do.... but now they just call it "a botched robbery..." 

 

Wonder why the loony left doesn't wanna open up a serious independent investigation into their own insiders' tyranny... hmmnnn....

 

Guess they're too busy throwing s--t against the wall trying to make a Trump/Putin connection stick....

 

 

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[bostonangler]

Our leaders need to understand the meaning of security... Trump's blunder with Israeli was bad enough, but this leak of British intelligence demonstrates serious misjudgment by whoever leaked. I don't care if it is the left or the right, we are seeing a new level of incompetence.

 

B/A 

[RV ME]

21 hours ago, bostonangler said:

Our leaders need to understand the meaning of security... Trump's blunder with Israeli was bad enough, but this leak of British intelligence demonstrates serious misjudgment by whoever leaked. I don't care if it is the left or the right, we are seeing a new level of incompetence.

 

B/A 

 

You have reveled in the daily illegal leaking that has been going on in order to undermine Trump.  You bring us the latest leak and gleefully claim impeachment is around the corner.  Now the Brits are upset with the latest leak, and again you blame Trump?

This is not a “new level of incompetence”, it is a new level of treasonous activity by the political losers who are loyal only to the head of the resistance, and that would be your 10^th best President in history.

[Shelley]

Lets keep up with the current news BA ,  Intelligence sharing reinstated as of this morning !!! 

[Shabibilicious]

18 minutes ago, Shelley said:

Lets keep up with the current news BA ,  Intelligence sharing reinstated as of this morning !!! 

 

Kudos to the 45th best President in history for appeasing Madam May.  

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited May 26, 2017 by Shabibilicious

[bostonangler]

1 hour ago, RV ME said:

 

You have reveled in the daily illegal leaking that has been going on in order to undermine Trump.  You bring us the latest leak and gleefully claim impeachment is around the corner.  Now the Brits are upset with the latest leak, and again you blame Trump?

 

This is not a “new level of incompetence”, it is a new level of treasonous activity by the political losers who are loyal only to the head of the resistance, and that would be your 10^th best President in history.

 

 

Thanks RV I hope all is well. I simply brought over a news story and made no "Gleeful" claim for impeachment, nor did I blame Trump. I quite clearly, just for you, stated "whoever leaked" because in the story from Breitbart the "Conservative" website it was reported the leak was not from the White House. So you who is usually very accurate in your writings was off just a bit this time.

 

B/A

[bostonangler]

56 minutes ago, Shelley said:

Lets keep up with the current news BA ,  Intelligence sharing reinstated as of this morning !!! 

 

Shelly, thanks for the update. I just saw that story as well. Of course it is being reported by the main stream media, so it must be "fake news"....

 

B/A

[moose 57]

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