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Business Insider: The UK is investigating whether Russian spies hacked secret memos branding Trump 'uniquely dysfunctional' and 'incompetent'
* UK officials are considering the possibility that a Russian state cyber-attack was behind a leak of memos which saw the UK ambassador in Washington brand Donald Trump's administration "inept and incompetent."
* The leak of memos has caused a major diplomatic row between the UK and US, with Trump saying he would "no longer deal" with Darroch.
* The leak has prompted a major Foreign Office investigation, with senior Conservative members of parliament calling for a police inquiry to identify the source behind it.
* Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "They are going to follow all avenues of inquiry to try to understand how this happened. That's something that will be considered."
LONDON — UK officials are investigating whether the Russian government hacked secret diplomatic memos which branded Donald Trump " inept and incompetent," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed.
Hunt said the possibility of a Russian cyber-attack to steal a huge tranche of memos written by Sir Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador in Washington, is now an official line of inquiry.
The so-called "diplomatic telegrams" sent by Darroch to senior UK officials revealed an unfavourable assessment of the current President and his "dysfunctional" White House administration, prompting a major Foreign Office investigation into the source of the leak.
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Update: UK tabloids theorize Russia hacked ambassador’s Trump memos… as London eggs them on (RT)
WNU Editor: The big story is what is in these memos, not who leaked them.
