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On the other hand
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 Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:47 am Post subject: Is the Obama administration a threat to British security? |
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Ever since he was released from Guantanamo in February after six years of due-process-less detention and brutal torture, Binyam Mohamed has been attempting to obtain justice for what was done to him. But his torturers have been continuously protected, and Mohamed's quest for a day in court repeatedly thwarted, by one individual: Barack Obama. Today, there is new and graphic evidence of just how far the Obama administration is going to prevent evidence of the Bush administration's torture program from becoming public.
In February, Obama's DOJ demanded dismissal of Mohamed's lawsuit against the company which helped "render" him to be tortured on the ground that national security would be harmed if the lawsuit continued. Then, after a British High Court ruled that there was credible evidence that Mohamed was subjected to brutal torture and was entitled to obtain evidence in the possession of the British government which detailed the CIA's treatment of Mohamed, and after a formal police inquiry began into allegations that British agents collaborated in his torture, the British government cited threats from the U.S. government that it would no longer engage in intelligence-sharing with Britain -- i.e., it would no longer pass on information about terrorist threats aimed at British citizens -- if the British court disclosed the facts of Mohamed's torture.
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You can read the rest on your own.
Glenn Greenwald |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| This seems old news. I'm sure I read about that very case some time ago. But interesting all the same. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Edit: Oh, this was about torture. That'll teach me to respond before reading.
Let's hope the Europeans resist US torture policy, even if they're incapable of resisting any other threats. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
Edit: Oh, this was about torture. That'll teach me to respond before reading.
Let's hope the Europeans resist US torture policy, even if they're incapable of resisting any other threats. |
If you're talking about the British, we have a rather long and illustrious record when it comes to torture. Right from the dark ages to our dealings with the Mau Mau in the 50s. And don't forget the stuff we got up do in Northern Ireland in 70s (and 80s?). |
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