Government makes 'unprecedented' apology for covering up Binyam torture

[kpete]

Source: Daily Mail

Government makes 'unprecedented' apology for covering up Binyam torture
By David Rose
Last updated at 12:57 AM on 19th April 2009

Government lawyers have been forced to make a humiliating apology to the High Court for concealing 13 crucial intelligence documents about the torture of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed.

Now it has admitted the papers do exist, the Government has handed them over to the court, although their exact contents remain secret.

But it is known that they do show MI5’s complicity in Mohamed’s torture went further than previously suspected – and contain the damaging admission that a senior MI5 officer known as Witness A gave ‘incorrect’ evidence at a hearing last year.

The apology, described by senior lawyers as ‘unprecedented’, last night prompted claims that intelligence agencies have been involved in a cover-up.




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[sutz12]

1. I'm not sure it's a real apology if it is forced.

:shrug:

[MannyGoldstein]

2. They Apologized For Being Caught n/t

[sutz12]

3. "I'm sorry if anybody felt insulted by being tortured"

:evilgrin:

[bertman]

4. Let the prosecutions begin! Concealing evidence from a court is a serious crime.

[florida08]

5. am glad they finally surfaced

and I hope they are indeed published and Binyam gets justice. Of course the court was umm 'misled' as one of the his lawyers stated very articulately:

‘If MI5 and MI6 can’t find documents when asked, it does concern me. What would happen if the Prime Minister asked them what they knew about some possible terrorist attack?
‘If they find it so difficult, I invite them to come and look at my own filing system – I’ve already amassed 60,000 pages on Binyam’s case, and they’re all indexed and easily accessible.’

He was tortured on the orders of the CIA..imagine that yet if published it could damage intelligence gathering between us and them?
Doesn't that sound familiar..Isn't that what Wall Street has been espousing? Don't investigate us..don't impose moral ethics on us
just let us do what we do and keep your eyes to the ground. We'll keep you safe and rich. Evidence of insurmountable stench and corruption.