Grandstanding in an election year...."
They all do.
Related: London to open playground for seniors
?????
Who is making the news choices down there, BG?
One thing they are not grandstanding about in merry old England:
"Britain discloses details of Guantanamo detainee’s treatment" by Karla Adam, Washington Post | February 11, 2010
LONDON - The British government yesterday disclosed once-secret details about the United States’ harsh treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after losing a lengthy legal battle to suppress the information.
The British government had warned that the disclosure would harm intelligence sharing between London and Washington and threaten national security.
The information, from a judge’s summary of a classified CIA report to British authorities about Binyam Mohamed, said he was subjected to “cruel, inhuman and degrading’’ treatment during interrogations in Pakistan in 2002 that included him being shackled and deprived of sleep while interrogators played upon “his fears of being removed from United States custody and ‘disappearing.’ ’’
Seven paragraphs of information were read in court and posted on the Foreign Office’s website.
David Miliband, British foreign secretary, told the House of Commons that he had fought to keep the seven paragraphs secret not because of their content, but because of the “principle of their disclosure by an English court against US wishes.’’
So WE RUN YOU after having booted your asses over 200 years ago, 'eh, England?
How humbling for you.
Yes, the last vestiges of the English Empire are gone; it's the USraeli Empire now.
At the heart of the legal battle, said Miliband, was an agreement that Britain should not reveal intelligence the United States passes on in confidence unless the Americans agree.
Miliband said that he spoke with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton about the case Tuesday night and that the British government now accepts yesterday’s Court of Appeal decision to release the information because a similar version had already been made public during a US court hearing for Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, another detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Oh, so the stuff was already out there and Clinton basically signed off on the "new" release, huh?
Mohamed, 31, was born in Ethiopia and lives in Britain.
Arrested in Pakistan in 2002, Mohamed claims he was tortured by American authorities and others under US instruction there and in Morocco.
A SECRET BLACK SITE!!!!
Mohamed claims Britain knew about his torture because, he says, information used on him during his questioning could have come only from British intelligence. He spent seven years in detention, four of them at Guantanamo.
For NOTHING, folks!
US officials said Mohamed had planned to blow up American apartment buildings, but those charges were later dropped. He returned to Britain in February 2009.
Yup, tortured and imprisoned for nothing!
And we have the temerity to criticize others over human rights, 'murka?
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Yeah, they want out pronto like we do here!
