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Posted By berkeley 10 months ago in Political News
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The comely mask of the new regime was torn away -- once again -- in a scandal that exploded in Britain on Wednesday. With unprecedented harsh language, two of Britain's high court judges revealed that both Bush and Obama officials have strong-armed the British government to quash evidence of the torture of a UK resident held captive in the American concentration camp on Guantanamo Bay. The judges said that the Bush-Obama officials threatened to stop sharing intelligence about terrorist threats against Britain unless the Brits played ball and stopped court hearings in the case of Binyam Mohamed.

Given this grave threat to British lives, the clearly angry judges said they had no choice but to stop the proceedings after the extraordinary intervention of UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who delivered the U.S. ultimatum. Once the story broke, the unctuous Miliband denied that his American masters had issued a direct threat. But the judges -- stalwart even stodgy Establishment figures both -- were clear about what had happened

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    berkeley10 months ago

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    obama is one step over the line here, unless someone else is in charge...

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    tehranchik10 months ago

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    Extra little tidbit;
    http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/02/the_britis...

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      gamahuche10 months ago

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      This a horrendous tale.
      I actually am not able to process it in one chunk.

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        Rick78x10 months ago

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        For all you Obamanoids - how's that for change you can be deceived in? Sleepwalking fools.

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          cushi10 months ago

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          I find this very disturbing, but I intend to withhold judgment until I hear more than one take on it and more than one side. Something doesn't feel quite right about the article to me. More research is needed, imho.

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