British court is demanding that the UK government obtain US torture docs within a week

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British court is demanding that the UK government obtain US torture docs within a week or the court will issue its own order to get them:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090422/wl_mcclatchy/3218126

By Julie Sell, McClatchy Newspapers Julie Sell, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Wed Apr 22, 7:54 pm ET
LONDON — The chief justice of the British High Court on Wednesday gave the British government one week to obtain the U.S. release of classified information about the alleged torture of a British resident who'd been detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .

The court indicated that it would issue its own order if the government doesn't respond or justify why continued secrecy is warranted.

Noting that President Barack Obama had released highly sensitive documents tracing the decisions on torture during the Bush administration's war on terror, the high court judges voiced exasperation that the British government hasn't acted in what they said was the British public interest in being similarly open.

The hearing illustrated how Obama's decision to be more transparent about his predecessor's detainee policies is having ripple effects abroad, but it also threw the ball back to the Obama administration to approve release of the contested information.

The White House said it had no comment yesterday.