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kpete

(71,903 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 08:26 AM May 2017

Police investigating Manchester Arena bomb attack have stopped sharing info with US after 2nd leak



Police investigating the Manchester Arena bomb attack have stopped sharing information with the US after leaks to the media, the BBC understands.

The UK's National Police Chiefs' Council described the "unauthorised disclosure" as a breach of trust which had potentially undermined a "major counter-terrorism investigation".

Counter-terrorism detectives have spoken in the past about how a delay of about 36 hours before the public know who is being investigated can allow known associates of the suspect to be arrested without being tipped off.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the leaks had worried him "greatly", and he had raised them with the US ambassador.

A Whitehall source described the second US leak as "on another level", and said it had caused "disbelief and astonishment" across the British government.


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40040210



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Police investigating Manchester Arena bomb attack have stopped sharing info with US after 2nd leak (Original Post) kpete May 2017 OP
British police share information with US intelligence agencies who share it with UK newspapers? Not Ruth May 2017 #1
Russian MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Get US allies to stop sharing sensitive information between them. TheBlackAdder May 2017 #2
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
1. British police share information with US intelligence agencies who share it with UK newspapers?
Thu May 25, 2017, 08:41 AM
May 2017

Perhaps it is time to escrow the news. This need to know everything the same day that it happens is putting the public in danger.

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