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| UK’s May sacks Defense Minister Williamson over Huawei leak |
| 2019-05-02 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday sacked Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson following a probe into the leak of news that Britannia had conditionally allowed China’s Huawei to develop the UK 5G network. "The Prime Minister has this evening asked Gavin Williamson to leave the government, having lost confidence in his ability to serve in the role of Defense Secretary and as a member of her Cabinet," said a spokeswoman from her Downing Street office. May said in a letter to Williamson that the investigation "provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorized disclosure" from the April 23 meeting of the National Security Council. "No other credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified," she added. Britannia’s already splintered government was rocked by the scandal over who leaked news that May was to let Huawei develop Britannia’s 5G network. The bitterly disputed decision was reportedly made at the April 23 meeting. National Security Council discussions are only attended by senior ministers and security officials who first sign the Official Secrets Act that commits them to keep conversations private or risk prosecution. But The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that May approved granting Huawei permission to build up "non-core" elements of Britannia’s next-generation telecommunications network. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Rumour mill says he opposed EU defence force and this was used to remove him. Boris is a combination of clown and sackless wonder. He should have been PM. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2019-05-02 20:11 |
| #11 Despite the NSA director testifying before Congress that they didn't? Lying is a crime, and he got away scot-free? If that was a crime, all of Congress would be in prison. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2019-05-02 20:08 |
| #10 May should get the sack for being in bed with Huawei. Sack? I'm thinking blanket party. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2019-05-02 20:07 |
| #9 And remember, they used British GCHQ to spy on Trump. Now, whose equipment GCHQ use to spy on Trump? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-05-02 15:57 |
| #8 Just because they spy doesn't mean they use Cisco equipment to do it. But, yes, Rice, Clapper, Comey and Brennan should be in jail. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-05-02 15:55 |
| #7 So we know for a fact that Wikileaks confirmed the NSA spies on us? Despite the NSA director testifying before Congress that they didn't? Lying is a crime, and he got away scot-free? |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-05-02 13:51 |
| #6 Rumour mill says he opposed EU defence force and this was used to remove him. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-05-02 11:31 |
| #5 I mean, we have private vendors like Cisco who compete with Huawei. I won't say Cisco never did any work for the NSA but if they gave NSA a backdoor then we're all backdoored and it's for damn sure that Huawei's backdoor leads directly to Beijing. If May doesn't know that she's felony stupid. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-05-02 11:07 |
| #4 Equipment backdoored by the NSA? I dunno, Herb. Sounds more like Obama's NSA than Trump's. And is the NSA worse than GCHQ? Do you have any evidence to substantiate this assertion? And, if you're gonna get backdoored equipment, are you gonna chose China's? Isn't that kinda like treason? May should get the sack for being in bed with Huawei. Williamson might have decided to take a bullet so he could let the world know. The biggest scandal is that anybody in any western country would give a job like this to the Chinese. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-05-02 10:42 |
| #3 They're trying to avoid equipment backdoored by the NSA. Can't blame them. Frankly, the 'intelligence community' is a greater threat to the world than China will ever be. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-05-02 08:42 |
| #2 Huawei is connected to May&Cameron |
| Posted by: Phurt Grundy5275 2019-05-02 08:14 |
| #1 Did he get a bigger briefcase full of money from China for all that military tech than may did? |
| Posted by: Omorong Black8889 2019-05-02 06:33 |