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THE METROPOLITAN POLICE in the UK have launched a criminal investigation into a recent email leak which led to the resignation of US ambassador Sir Kim Darroch.
London’s Metropolitan Police said its terrorism command, which investigates potential breaches of Britain’s Official Secrets Act, had initiated the probe into the leaking of Darroch’s correspondence.
“I am satisfied that there has been damage caused to UK international relations, and there would be clear public interest in bringing the person or people responsible to justice,” Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said in a statement announcing the move.
Darroch resigned following criticism from President Donald Trump, who earlier this week said he would “no longer deal with him”.
In a letter to Sir Simon McDonald, permanent under secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Darroch said there had been a “great deal of speculation” about his position since the recent leak of memos from his embassy.
The documents revealed Darroch had described the US President as “inept” and “dysfunctional”. This prompted a backlash from Trump who said he would “no longer deal with the ambassador”.
“I do not know the ambassador, but he is not liked or well thought of within the US,” he said on Monday.
In his letter, Darroch said the current situation is “making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like”.
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Imagine not paying a cent off your mortgage in 9years and living a plush life… some neck on them 2…
@mondoburley80: I see what you did there? :-). Your comment will be deleted soon. Wait for it…hahahaha
@mondoburley80: One law for the rich and another for the hoi polloi.
@mondoburley80: they are part of the reason banks aren’t giving out mortgages to young couples, should be ashamed of themselves, 2 well heeled disgusting people.
@mondoburley80:
Nobody needs to pay their state funded debt apparently.
Your a fool if you do. Me and Leo will pay.
@Josh Hanners:
Not the case. Nobody needs to pay. If you have the neck just throw bank letters in the fire. The other tax payers will cough up. They vote for this every 4 years
What’s the big deal?! Political leaks are now the norm. There have been leaks nearly every second day during Trump’s presidency. Also, during the Russiagate hoax. Why the massive outcry now?!
@Jack Simpson: this is not a political leak – it’s a lot more serious than that. Ambassadors have to be able to communicate in complete secrecy with their home governments.
@Jack Simpson: because there is something called secrecy and diplomacy. If the person leaked this what else could they have leaked? You do not think it is the right step for the police to investigate?
@Jack Simpson: any outcry about leaks is hardly occurring just now. Your own examples prove that but this is a different ballgame
@offtheball: According to the journalist that received the leak on sky news last night, the problem was that the document didn’t have a high enough classification of secrecy. It was deemed one rung up the ladder from the bottom level.
Jack is what educated people call a ‘run with the herd kinda guy’, a MAGA blank canvas, copying what he reads on social media, forsaking his own brain for the greater MAGA good. Kind of like a dystopian, Trump bonehead, quarter-back on the high-school football team.
You gotta love freedom and democracy engllsh style. Publishing Videos of NATO forces massacring civilians is apparently a crime worthy of 147 years in prison which the english are supporting . Then, english style, refuse access to the news organization responsible for showing the sickening warts and all videos for publicizing those videos at a conference being held in england to promote media freedom. Apparently, if you don’t support englands self preservation and No anti english establishment stories, then any and all media are free to attend. However, if oneever thought that the massacres during Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy might just have been civilian massacres by the english, you will privably be refused access to this conference about media freedom. Gotta love english logic.
@Cal Mooney: bingo ! And don’t forget the integrity initiative with the U.K. government paying journalists and academics to write or profess certain opinions in order to interfere in politics in U.K. and abroad via the institute of spacecraft quango .
@Cal Mooney: i think if you mentioned “england” one more time they might appear behind you in the mirror. Truth is that your rambling is useless to read. You’re biased and so no one can trust you
A positive development this affair has been to weaken the imperialist “special relationship”. More of this please, gentlemen!
@Micheál: give it up.
Probably done by the CIA using Vault 7 as nothing would surprise me these days as the government of the US now are the king of lies…
Its never a leak if trump wants you gone.
He was set up to please usa
Pamela and her like should be pulled out of houses by their pubic hair and flogged publicly
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