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