28 May, 2017
The British government has expressed its anger at the release in USA media of details from the investigation into Monday's concert attack, including photographs of parts of the bomb which left 22 people dead, including children.
The leaks to USA media outlets - which included photos and the name of the suspected bomber - infuriated United Kingdom officials, including Prime Minister Theresa May, who said she would "make clear to President Trump that intelligence that is shared between our law enforcement agencies must remain secure".
U.S. media outlets were also the first to report the bomber's name, citing USA officials.
Within hours of Rudd's statement, The New York Times published photographs purportedly showing remnants of the bomb detonated at the concert.
As a result, they're "really, really, really mad about this", Frank says.
"The British police have been very clear they want to control the flow of information in order to protect operational integrity - the element of surprise", she said, according to the BBC.
"I will make clear to President Trump that intelligence that is shared between our law enforcement agencies must remain secure", British Prime Minister Theresa May said Thursday.
Prime Minister May has raised Britain's terror threat level to critical, the highest level, meaning an attack may be imminent.
The two leaders discussed the row, which has threatened intelligence-sharing between the two key allies, as they posed for a photo with other leaders at a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Brussels.
The outlet reported the leaks sparked outrage in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, and British police chiefs. The acting USA ambassador to Britain, Lewis Lukens, called the leaks "reprehensible" and "deeply distressing" in an interview on BBC radio. "And initial searches of premises have revealed items that we believe are very important to the investigation", Hopkins said Thursday.
But in the United States, politicians were openly briefing the media on what they had been told about Abedi and his "cell of Isis-inspired terrorists".
And Trump called the allegations "deeply troubling", saying he's asked the Department of Justice to "launch a complete review of this matter".
Her comments came after British officials said they would no longer share intelligence on the attack with US officials after information was leaked tot he USA media.
