Posted on 05/12/2009 11:32:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
This is very depressing news - a decision by Obama to threaten the UK with withholding intelligence if the British high court release seven pages detailing the torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed:
"The seven paragraphs at issue are based upon classified information shared between our countries," the U.S. letter said. "Public disclosure of this information, reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the United Kingdom's national security. "Specifically, disclosure of this information may result in a constriction of the U.S.-U.K. relationship, as well as U.K. relationships with other countries."
So Obama has now appointed a general to head up the Afghanistan occupation who reportedly assured his men who were routinely and sadistically torturing captives in Iraq that no investigator from the military, let alone the Red Cross, would be allowed in to witness the war crimes. And he has now threatened a major ally if its court releases details of another torture victim of the Bush-Cheney era.
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
She’s trying to get a new show together..”Dykes On Sykes”..
Why is Obama going after Gordon Brown when he is doing the same thing himself?
remember when the media touted Sullivan as a conservative?
This is very poorly written. It seems quite hurried and is hard to follow.
Come on guys.. this is not DU... we dont wish peopleharm here, no matter how vile they are.
While this may or may not be justified, I am leaning very heavily toward the idea that Obama is looking for just about any way to drive a wedge between the U S. and Great Britain. That would be my first inclination here. He sure didn’t mind revealing our secrets via the C. I. A. releases of information.
There's no value in letting the Brits take attention from this white house.
Maybe his strategy is to wait to be “forced” to show the photos, or ...
Maybe he’s hoping that the media and the public’s imaginations will paint images worse than the real ones. Either way, by making a big deal about them and then keeping them from the public, the photos are now forbidden fruit. No one expected to see everything that happens behinds the scenes in a war.
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