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Thursday, August 28, 2008
US Threatens UK Court Over Torture Evidence
Wow, this is truly disturbing. Apparently, our State Department is explicitly trying to interfere in the case of a man who claims that he was tortured by Moroccan authorities who were acting as US proxies:
In a remarkable development at the High Court in London, an email from a senior US State Dept. official has been revealed, apparently threatening to curb co-operation with Britain on international intelligence sharing if details on a detainees interrogation are revealed. Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, held at Gitmo, have taken legal action in the UK to force the release of details which, they say, will prove Mohamed was ilegally abducted and tortured into a confession. Mohamed claims that his torture included having his penis cut with a razor blade by Moroccan proxies for the US.
In an email to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which was sent on to the court, Stephen Mathias, a legal adviser to the US state department, said that the disclosure of information would cause “serious and lasting damage to the US-UK intelligence-sharing relationship and thus the national security of the UK, and the aggressive and unprecedented intervention in the apparently functioning adjudicatory processes of a longtime ally of the UK, in contravention of well-established principles of international comity.”
Posted by Metavirus at 8/28/2008 02:49:00 PM
Tags: Bush , Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , Torture , War Crimes
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