British High Court Rules In Favor Of Revealing Gitmo Intelligence Documents In Torture Case

Here's the deal - the British High Court today has dealt a HUGE blow to both American and British intelligence services by ruling that details of a report involved in a case of a prisoner at Gitmo who now lives in Britain must be made public - the part of the report withheld from the trial is top secret interrogation techniques used by U.S. personnel at Gitmo and what the British jihadi's defense team claims is proof of torture.

Bottom line is this - the U.S. shared intelligence information with the British. Then this jihadi gets released from Gitmo and gets a 2 year visa to live in Britain. The jihadi sues the British government for their role in the "torture" in Gitmo. And now, the British High Court has ruled that this highly sensitive info, that the Americans shared with the Brits, is now going to be made public. And what that more than likely means is this - the British government will NEVER be provided again with U.S. intelligence information.

All because of a murdering, conspiring islamic terrorist who at one point in time is hellbent on destroying western culture and at a later point in time, uses the legal system of that same western culture to sue for his own personal benefit.

This will be a huge blow to the British intelligence services and a huge win for the radical islamists in the world. When this info becomes public, no matter how subdued the actual "torture" details actually are, we can all expect a new round of islamic protests across the entire world.

Here's the article from the Times Online:

Judges order release of Binyan Mohamed 'torture' material

Secret details of the alleged torture of Binyan Mohamed must be made public, the High Court ruled tonight.
Two judges said that seven paragraphs in a US intelligence document linked to the case which have remained unpublished as a result of pressure from the Government's lawyers must now be put into the public domain.
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said the Government would appeal against the ruling “in the strongest possible terms”. The CIA and Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, have warned that disclosure would deter the US from sharing intelligence with the UK, putting British lives at risk.
In their ruling, Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones said there was “overwhelming” public interest in disclosing the seven paragraphs of material “redacted” from their original judgment on the Binyam Mohamed case last year. The decision comes less than 24 hours after Jonathan Evans, the director general of MI5, defended the use of Britain's co-operation with intelligence agencies in America and other countries accused of the abuse and torture of detainees, saying they had stopped "many attacks" in the aftermath of the September 11 strikes

A British resident born in Ethiopia, Mr Mohamed was still being held at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial at the time of the court’s original judgment in August last year, but has since been released and has returned to the UK.
The 31-year-old, who was released from Guantanamo in February, has been given a two-year residence status in Britain. He is suing the Government, alleging that MI5 was complicit in the abuse he suffered, because he claims a Security Service officer known only as Witness B visited him while he was being held in the Moroccan facility.
“The Government is deeply disappointed by the judgment handed down today by the High Court, which concludes that a summary of US intelligence material should be put into the public domain against their wishes,” Mr Miliband said.
“The issues at stake are simple, but profound. They go to the heart of the efforts made to defend the security of the citizens of this country. At a time when the UK faces a serious threat from international terrorism, the Government will not take risks with intelligence that is essential to national security and shared with us by many states.
“We only share British intelligence with other countries on the basis that they will not disclose that intelligence without our express permission. The same inviolable principle applies to foreign intelligence shared with us. In the case of the US, an intelligence partnership whose importance and breadth is unique in the modern world, that principle requires defence with special vigour,” the Foreign Secretary said.
The alleged abuses of terrorist supects by the CIA occurred during the administration of President George W Bush. President Obama declared that any form of torture would be prohibited.
“We have welcomed the changes in counter-terrorism strategy that President Obama has made since coming to office, but we are clear that what has remained unchanged is the degree of protection the US expects others to give its intelligence,” Mr Miliband said.
“The US will not prejudice its own intelligence if it perceives that this intelligence may be disclosed at the order of a foreign court or otherwise. It remains my assessment that the consequence of the Court's judgment today, if left unchallenged, will be a restriction on what is shared with us. The documents published today as part of the court’s judgment \ show that this is the US view too,” he said.
“The Court has failed to accord proper weight to these factors or this assessment and, on such a fundamental issue, it is right and proper that we appeal its judgment,” Mr Miliband said.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights organisation Liberty, said: “The Government should be shamed by this High Court finding suggesting that secrecy is being used to prevent political embarrassment about torture rather than to protect national security.”