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The State Department has issued an apology to GCHQ via diplomatic channels. Which is unprecedented. The US should not be needing to apologise to one of its closest allies, ever.

I agree with John Gruber on this, POTUS's allegations are the actions of a man whose elevator does not go all the way to the penthouse of Trump Tower.


The State Department has issued an apology to GCHQ via diplomatic channels.

Do you have a source for this?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/us-makes-formal-a...

"Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims. "The apology came direct from them," a source said.

General McMaster contacted Sir Mark Lyall Grant, the Prime Minister's National Security adviser, to apologise for the comments. Mr Spicer conveyed his apology through Sir Kim Darroch, Britain's US ambassador."

Here's another quote from the article:

Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims. "The apology came direct from them," a source said.

It's based on an anonymous source.

Here's another quote from that same article:

"Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command - he didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI and he didn't use the Department of Justice - he used GCHQ."

So we're going to discard what several anonymous sources said, but we will believe what some other anonymous source said?

Valid point. I guess we can wait and see if the Trump administration continues to point the finger at GCHQ. If not, I'd say that's pretty good evidence that it report is true, given how infrequently Trump and his people walk back or drop a claim.
Right, it goes both ways. Trump based his tweet on Fox News reporting from an anonymous source. The Telegraph is reporting from an anonymous source. Do you believe both of them?
GCHQ has now made a public statement, so the Telegraph was correct. It isn't in the habit of publishing made-up bullshit (aka fake news). Fox, on the other hand...
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