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Speaker 1: discussed strained relations between US and UK intelligence services after
Speaker 1: information about the Manchester bombing leaked to US media. Is
Speaker 1: seek at Bradley Moss, a partner at mark z PC,
Speaker 1: and Andrew Kent, a professor at Fordham University Law School.
Speaker 1: Will this affect intelligence sharing with the UK? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's hard to say. From what I can tell,
Speaker 1: it's still unclear from whose side, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: the American or the US side the leaks came. I mean,
Speaker 1: it seems Prime Minister May thinks it's from the American side,
Speaker 1: and and maybe it is. But you know, these kinds
Speaker 1: of leaks are pretty common. You know. The photos published
Speaker 1: by the New York Times did not you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're primecing photos, but do not seem to be amazingly
Speaker 1: sensitive not not on the on the same order of
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that President Trump apparently disclosed. So
Speaker 1: I would be surprised if a you know, decades long,
Speaker 1: incredibly strong and fruitural intelligence relationship between the UK and
Speaker 1: the United States is you know, meaningfully harmed by this.
Speaker 1: But you know, it certainly doesn't help Bradley UH Justice
Speaker 1: Department apparently is going to look into this. What what
Speaker 1: laws conceivably could have been broken by the leak of
Speaker 1: this information? Well, by and large, the standard ones we've
Speaker 1: heard with respect to any leak of classified information, even
Speaker 1: class of information that's been shared by a UH foreign
Speaker 1: partner government could conceivably fall under one of various statutory
Speaker 1: provisions under the Espionage Act, or a couple of different
Speaker 1: ones with respective misdemeanors for improperly removing classified information or
Speaker 1: what's called national defense information. The question, of course, is
Speaker 1: who you know, even assuming that this was a leak
Speaker 1: from the U West side, what particular agencies or organizations
Speaker 1: with the US government would have received it, And was
Speaker 1: it from the intelligence community or was it coming from
Speaker 1: White House officials. We just don't know yet. Is this
Speaker 1: information to actually classify? Would you expect that to be
Speaker 1: the case. From what has been described, I am candidly
Speaker 1: not certain. It sounds like it was likely at least sensitive.
Speaker 1: Whether or not it met the definition for classified is
Speaker 1: kind of up in the air, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be part of the problem is there's very clear statutory
Speaker 1: provisions in US law for criminalizing people who leak classified information.
Speaker 1: When it comes to unclassified but sensitive information, it's a
Speaker 1: lot harder to make a criminal case, if at all.
Speaker 1: And if that's what that's what we have here. If
Speaker 1: it's information that's not classified, it's a basis for possibly
Speaker 1: firing the person who leaked it, but making a criminal
Speaker 1: case is far more difficult. As Ranley Massa partner at
Speaker 1: Mark Zade PC and Andrew Kentner, professor at Fordham you know,
Speaker 1: Versity Law School speaking at Bloomberg La host Doing Grosso
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