❓WHAT HAPPENED: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied claims that Britain has stopped sharing intelligence on drug-trafficking vessels due to concerns about U.S. military actions in the Caribbean.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, British intelligence services, and Group of Seven foreign ministers.
📍WHEN & WHERE: November 12, 2025, at the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, Ontario, Canada.
💬KEY QUOTE: “This is a false story,” said Rubio, referring to the claims of suspended intelligence sharing.
🎯IMPACT: Rubio reaffirmed the strong U.S.-UK partnership and dismissed concerns about disrupted intelligence cooperation.
Speaking to journalists at the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport in Ontario, Canada, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied claims that Britain had ceased intelligence sharing on drug-trafficking vessels. Rubio called the reports a “false story,” stating that the United States and the United Kingdom continue to maintain a strong partnership.
“I did see a CNN report yesterday—I’m not going to go into great detail other than to say that it’s a false story. It’s a fake story,” the U.S Secretary of State said, continuing: “And what’s happening now is people with a business card that has a government email on it become sources because they don’t know—they’re not even in the know, so they either have an agenda or they want to make themselves important, and it’s been a plague of story after story that’s either inaccurate or misleading, and that falls in the category of both, that story does.”
Rubio was responding to a CNN report suggesting that Britain had suspended intelligence sharing due to concerns over U.S. military actions against narco-terrorists in the Caribbean. He went on to emphasize, “We have very strong partnerships with the UK and other countries. Again, nothing has changed or happened that has impeded in any way our ability to do what we’re doing, nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we’re doing at any—in any realm, and that includes military.”
The comments came after a meeting of Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers in Canada. Rubio noted that the operations near Venezuela were not raised during the discussions and that Britain had not expressed any concerns directly to him.
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