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Originally Posted by Chris
Being the most senior posting in the entire diplomatic service, the British ambassador to the USA has normally got a contact book with telephone numbers spanning the entire world. He has formal and informal relationships of every kind, developed over a career spanning decades. He also has a senior MI6 station chief in Washington on speed dial. To even attempt to use a little Internet forum like this to argue that someone in his position is in the business of peddling unsubstantiated opinions is absurd.
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Chris is so right here. Anyone who thinks the US ambassador should not be frank and candid with his/her Executive is living in cloud cuckoo land.
That is it. End Of. Any objections to what he said are just down to the political prejudices of the author.