{"id":192920,"date":"2009-02-05T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/british-the-united-states-on-wednesday-of-threats-to-conceal-torture\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:31:00","slug":"british-the-united-states-on-wednesday-of-threats-to-conceal-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/05\/british-the-united-states-on-wednesday-of-threats-to-conceal-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"British the United States on Wednesday of Threats to Conceal Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a report that the UK government demanded that court proceedings detailing torture be suppressed because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE51351P20090204\">the United States on Wednesday was threatening to end intelligence cooperation<\/a> if the details were releases:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Two senior British judges accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening to end intelligence cooperation if Britain released evidence about the alleged torture of a Guantanamo detainee.<\/p>\n<p>The judges quoted lawyers for British Foreign Secretary David Miliband as saying the U.S. government, by reviewing intelligence cooperation, &#8220;could inflict on the citizens of the United Kingdom a very considerable increase in the dangers they face at a time when a serious terrorist threat still pertains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the ruling from High Court judges Lord Justice Thomas and Lord Justice Lloyd Jones, Miliband&#8217;s lawyers said the threat had existed for some time and was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">still in place under President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>If you think that your behavior is egregious enough that you need to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">threaten allies<\/span> to keep it away from public view, that&#8217;s a pretty good sign that you should not be doing it in the first place, and that you should be looking at criminal prosecution of the perpetrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a report that the UK government demanded that court proceedings detailing torture be suppressed because the United States on Wednesday was threatening to end intelligence cooperation if the details were releases: Two senior British judges accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening to end intelligence cooperation if Britain released evidence about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}