This is disturbing.

From the Guardian UK:

US threats mean evidence of British resident’s Guantánamo torture must stay secret, judges rule

Tory MP David Davis demands urgent Commons statement on MI5 role in Binyam Mohamed case

Evidence of how a British resident held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was tortured, and what MI5 knew about it, must remain secret because of serious threats the US has made against the UK, the high court ruled today.

The judges made clear they were deeply unhappy with their decision, but said they had no alternative as a result of a statement by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, that if the evidence was disclosed the US would stop sharing intelligence with Britain. That would directly threaten the UK’s national security, Miliband had told the court.

This afternoon David Davis, the Conservative MP and former shadow home secretary, said ministers must urgently respond to the allegations that Britain was complicit in torture. He demanded a Commons statement from the government on the ruling, calling it “a matter of utmost national importance”.

This article gave me a case of deja vu because I remember the topic from a few months ago … until I got to this:

“Indeed, we did not consider that a democracy governed by the rule of law would expect a court in another democracy to suppress a summary of the evidence contained in reports by its own officials … relevant to allegations of torture and cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, politically embarrassing though it might be,” they said.

The judges said they had been taken aback by the severity of the threat made by the US government.

In another part of the ruling, the judges said lawyers for Miliband had told them the threat to withdraw cooperation remained in place under the new administration of President Barack Obama.

For all the other great stuff, this sort of thing is probably going to give my hope a touch of pancreatic cancer.

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