U.S. reaches out to Britain to clean up White House’s spying claim

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http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/drpRdW8VApghDKZ0AhM_bw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/82725d9183771727c1d8ecef18ac3c3d (https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-reaches-out-to-britain-to-clean-up-white-houses-spying-claim-152930788.html)The White House has contritely reached out to Britain after infuriating that close ally by recycling a Fox News commentator’s charge that the U.K.-spied on President Trump in 2016 at Barack Obama’s request, officials in Washington and London said Friday. Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen.-H.R. McMaster, assured his counterpart by telephone that the White House had not meant to endorse the claim. White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who touched off the unusual diplomatic controversy on Thursday, did the same in a conversation with Britain’s ambassador to Washington.



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