The Anonymous Widower

I Back the Judges

Senior judges are at odds with David Milliband over documents concerning interrogations in the US.

Here’s the first two paragraphs of the BBC report.

Senior judges say the foreign secretary is stopping them releasing details of CIA interrogation techniques – even though the US has published them.

The High Court says it wants to refer to previously classified documents as part of its judgement on the alleged mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed.

Interestingly, it would appear that the BBC’s web page links to the documents on the American Civil Liberties Union.

So if we can all read them on the web, why can’t the judges use them?

But then we are never given the truth by government when it suits them.  Chevaline was the codename of the project by the Callaghan Government to update the Polaris missiles in the 1970s.  It was kept secret for years and only a few years ago, the only full reference to it on the Internet was on the Federation of American Scientists.

We need a lot more information to be published.  And not about MPs expenses, which is just peanuts compared to the dark and terrible secrets of things that governments do in our name.

November 19, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | News | Law, NuLabor, Politics, Secrecy