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Manchester attack: What leaks mean for UK-US intelligence sharing

May went from defending Trump admin's approach to intelligence sharing to confronting US over leaks

Donald Trump, Theresa May
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President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May gesture during their joint news conference in the White House

Colin Murray | The Conversation

Just a few hours after the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, issued a stern warning to the US government and intelligence officials about leaking sensitive information, they were at it again.

US news outlets had already published the name of the suspect in the Manchester attack before the UK authorities were prepared to make it public. And now not only had more intelligence information been released about the suspects family and their movements, but the New York Times published photographs of bomb fragments and the tattered remains of a backpack.

But while this