Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
Because they won't be sued in English courts for accidentally misreporting something. Plus, they already know the culprit and have decided that the investigation won't be hampered by their reporting.
It's not the press who are being forward with the information.

American officials have been criticised for leaking the identity of the Manchester bomber before British police officially named him.

Thomas Sanderson, director of the transnational threats project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies thinktank in Washington, said the disclosures would be irritating to the British. “Suddenly you’ve got 10,000 reporters descending on the bomber’s house when maybe the police wanted to approach it more subtly,” he said.

Sanderson warned of ill judgment and lack of discipline in the White House. “This is a leaky administration. What does that mean for sharing information we need to going forward? The UK and Israel are probably our two biggest sources of intelligence. Now they’re thinking, ‘Is this going to cause us damage every time we share?’ Then you have to calculate every piece of information.”