Leakers Endanger The US, So They Should Be Hunted Down Like Deer!

Trump Is on the Hunt… No Leaker Is Safe

BY MARTIN LIOLL
ON MAY 26, 2017 AT 5:52AM

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As a general rule, President Donald Trump has been highly critical of leaks within the government and his administration. However, when someone leaked sensitive information about the Manchester terror attack, it was a bridge too far.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has launched an investigation into who leaked sensitive information about Monday’s attack to media sources, calling the security breaches “deeply troubling.”

British officials were so outraged over two leaks in particular — the sharing of a crime scene photo from the Manchester Arena with The New York Times and the release of the name of bombing suspect Salman Abedi to various media outlets — that they temporarily stopped sharing intelligence information about the attack with the United States.

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However, on Thursday, British police said they had resumed intelligence sharing after “fresh assurances” from the United States, according to the U.K. Independent.

While British officials have not said that the leaks compromised the investigation into Monday’s bombing in any way, some have noted that releasing the bombing suspect’s name may have alerted individuals who were in league with Abedi and allowed them to evade law enforcement.

In a Thursday statement from the NATO summit in Brussels, President Trump said the “deeply troubling” leaks are a “grave threat to our national security.”

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“There is no relationship we cherish more than the special relationship between the U.S. and the UK,” Trump said, according to the BBC.

Acknowledging that “(t)hese leaks have been going on for a long time,” Trump pledged a full Department of Justice investigation and said that “if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted.”

The leaking culture inside the federal government apparatus needs to be put into check. A hunt into leaky pipes is long overdue, and prosecutions need to happen. Leakers should never be able to compromise our national security, especially when it involves one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in recent years.

Let’s hope that the culprits are found quickly.

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Manchester Bomber Was Poor Enough To Have Nike Trainers Shoes Worth 300 Euros

MINUTES FROM MASS MURDER

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi caught on CCTV in lift to Manchester Arena wearing £300 Nike trainers with his hand on trigger of homemade device moments before killing 22 innocent concert-goers

The 22-year-old fiend was caught arriving at the music venue with his explosive device concealed in a rucksack on his back

By Mike Sullivan, Crime Editor

27th May 2017, 9:46 pm

 

Updated: 29th May 2017, 5:29 am

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BOMBER Salman Abedi looks relaxed in a lift — minutes before detonating the home-made dev­ice which killed 22 people at Manchester Arena.

The 22-year-old mons­t­er was captured by a CCTV camera as he made his way up to the concert venue from the city’s ­Victoria Station in his pair of £300 Nike trainers.

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Suicide bomber Salman Abedi was caught on CCTV heading towards the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena

He wore glasses, a baseball cap and jeans plus a Hollister puffa jacket — with his left hand holding the detonator for the bomb in his Karrimor rucksack.

Minutes later 22 people lay dead after a devastating blast, which followed Monday night’s gig by US singer Ariana Grande. Another 120 were injured.

Abedi, 22, was captured on video as he travelled in a lift to the arena from the city’s adjoining Victoria Station.

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The 22-year-old fiend wore £300 Nike trainers and looked like any other concert-goer in his puffa jacket and baseball cap

The monster, who claimed benefits and got student loans to fund his suicide bomb, appeared relaxed as he travelled up a single level from the ground floor — appearing to lean on the lift wall.

Sporting a wispy beard and wearing specs and his rare Nike Air Jordan trainers, he concealed the detonator in the left pocket of his padded jacket.

After leaving the lift, Abedi turned left and walked 65 yards across a raised concourse to the arena’s City Room entrance before walking into the foyer.

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CCTV images of Salman Abedi taken on the night he committed attack in Manchester

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The monster was caught on CCTV in this lift at Manchester Victoria train station

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Sophisticated detonator used in the suicide bomb that murdered 22 concert-goers

At 10.33pm — as young fans streamed from the crowded venue — he used the detonator to explode the device, which was cruelly packed with screws, bolts and nails to inflict maximum damage.

Police have now released two full-length images of Abedi — with the lift wall blacked out — as the PM announced the UK’s terror threat level has been reduced from critical to severe.

It came after pre-dawn raids carried out by the SAS and police led to the seizure of missing explosives at a house in Manchester’s Moss Side area.

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Devastation . . . The aftermath of the massacre at Manchester Arena on Monday

Two brothers, Mohamed and Yahya Werfalli, aged 20 and 22, were held at their family home by cops hunting the remnants of a gang suspected to have assisted Abedi’s barbaric attack.

Meanwhile streets were cordoned off and residents told to stay indoors after chemical hydrogen peroxide explosives were found at a local house.

An army bomb disposal team was called in to search the property, which was declared safe at lunchtime.

Abedi was decapitated by the force of his deadly blast, but was identified within two hours.

That ena­bled cops to establish his movements and draw up a list of his associates.

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Suicide bomber Salman Abedi's final route

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins and Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator UK Counter Terrorism Policing, said in a joint statement that “significant” information had been gathered on Abedi and “the wider conspiracy”.

They added: “As a result of the arrests and searches which have taken place we now have many further lines of enquiry.

“We already have more than 1,500 actions we are pursuing.

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CCTV Images that police believe to be Salman Abedi shopping in Arndale

“This is still a live investigation which is not slowing down.

"Our priorities are to understand the run-up to this terrible event and to understand if more people were involved in planning this attack.”

Security chiefs had been anxious to trace explosives unaccounted for following a raid on a short-term apartment in Manchester city centre where Abedi constructed and primed his bomb.

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A wounded concert-goer escapes the massacre left 22 people dead and 120 injured

It was from there that he is thought to have walked five minutes to Piccadilly station to buy a £1.20 Metrolink tram ticket to transport him just over a mile to Victoria Station and the arena.

Arriving at Victoria on either platform One or Two, it appears he took the lift.

Having crossed the raised walkway, he walked down just 12 steps to the venue.

After comparing the amount of chemicals stockpiled by Abedi’s network with those recovered from the flat and used in the blast, cops concluded there was enough left for at least two more bombs.

Along with fears that “key players” in Abedi’s cell were still at large, it prompted the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre to increase the terror threat level to critical last Tuesday — meaning an attack is imminent.