Interference of British Intelligence in US election campaign got first heard of after former MI6 officer Christopher Steele’s shocking report on BuzzFeed. In this report ex-British spy asserted that Moscow has enormous influence on President-elect Donald Trump. Regardless of the fact there is not much credibility in the published information, it became the basis of the information campaign against Trump, which was started by the liberal media and supporters of former candidate for the post of US president Hillary Clinton.
Later BuzzFeed also published an interview by another British Intelligence officer who refused to give his name for security reasons. The MI6 officer unraveled the goals of the surveillance operation against Trump. Like the rest of the world, Great Britain was expecting Clinton to win and was developing certain agreements with her aimed at introducing preferences in trade and economic relations during the Brexit and after it. No wonder that Her Majesty’s intelligence was seeking ways to assure the victory of the candidate who was supported by Downing Street. Trump’s victory was a bitter blow to them. According to the latest news, they still didn’t recover from it.
Earlier it was Donald Trump’s team that had to hold defensive labeling BuzzFeed and CNN as spreaders of ‘fake news’. Now, it is turn of the Britishers to defend themselves. White House press secretary Sean Spicer blamed GCHQ for wiretapping Donald Trump’s former main office at Trump Tower during presidential campaign. Sure enough, Queen Elizabeth II’s subjects are not in any rush to confess to the charge. However, Trump’s administration, which is well known for its expressive style, would definitely not bring such charges for no good reason.
Regular citizens, who do not have access to classified data, are not likely to ever know all the truth about how actually the situation developed. And still it is pretty obvious that Donald Trump and British intelligence fell out with each other, which may trigger major problems in relations of the two countries.
