British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
An astute British judge has ordered the release of U.K. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents the Labour Party sought to hide to protect the C.I.A., who broke international law. It is in relation to requests for government documents on the rendition and torture of a Muslim Ethiopian, who resides in Britain.
The Bush administration had threaten to sever all intelligence ties with Britain, its top ally, if the documents were disclosed. It's this type of small minded, with emphasis on small minded, thinking that got the Bush administration into so much trouble around the world. Threatening and bullying people into submitting to Bush's will in blatant wrongdoing was ungodly and evil.
The world already knows Bush renditioned people and had them severely tortured in his madness that violated the Geneva Conventions. The Labour Party should not have gone along with it. Ditto for the other world governments that facilitated it in their nations.
Mr. Bush and all involved should hope one day someone doesn't do the same to their adult children, as they did to other people's grown children, who were not even terrorists. People were snatched off the streets of the world, smuggled from the nations they live in and tortured for information they did not have, only to be released later scarred and emotionally destroyed. That's just as bad as terrorism.
Side Bar: Severing ties with Britain would only serve to hurt America. While the C.I.A. is competent, albeit inhumane, America's first line of defense against terrorism is the F.B.I. and while there are intelligent agents in the organization, the Bureau's director is as dumb as rocks and sorely lacking common sense. MI5 and MI6 has pertinent information on Londonistan and their operatives in the Middle East, who seek to harm Britain and America.
Government forced to publish U.S. torture allegations
The government lost a legal battle on Wednesday to prevent the disclosure of secret U.S. intelligence material relating to allegations of "cruel and inhuman" treatment involving the CIA.
London's Court of Appeal rejected a request by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to prevent senior judges from disclosing claims that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed had been shackled and subjected to sleep deprivation and threats while in U.S. custody.
The office of Dennis Blair, U.S. director of national intelligence, issued a statement saying the British court's decision "to release classified information provided by the United States is not helpful, and we deeply regret it."
"The protection of confidential information is essential to strong, effective security and intelligence cooperation among allies," the statement said. It indicated the ruling would create "challenges" but the two countries would "remain united in our efforts to fight against violent extremist groups."
Miliband had argued that full disclosure of the redacted claims might make the United States less willing to share intelligence and thus prejudice Britain's national security.
Recent events showed the importance of sharing intelligence, and the U.S. authorities were concerned about the release of such material, he told parliament, adding that he was working with U.S. officials to ensure bilateral ties were not damaged.
Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and British resident, was arrested in Pakistan in April 2002. He says he was flown to Morocco on a CIA plane and held for 18 months, during which he says he was repeatedly tortured, including having his penis cut with a knife. Morocco has denied holding him.
He was transferred to Afghanistan in 2004 and later moved to Guantanamo Bay, U.S. authorities have said. He was never charged and returned to Britain in February 2009...
But last October, two High Court judges ruled there was "an overwhelming public interest" in releasing the details, a decision the Appeal Court upheld Wednesday...
