You are a pair of lying bastards. Time after time you declared that the UK was above reproach in the matter of colluding with torture. Time after time you fought tooth and nail through the courts to prevent information emerging. And all of that time you knew. You knew that the UK co-operated with flights to so-called 'black prisons' in Morocco, Poland, Diego Garcia and Iraq. You knew that British subjects had been tortured by foreign agencies. You knew that British agents helped provide questions.
The argument that you did not know does not hold water. As Foreign Secretary you would have to be told. The only plausible alternative would be that you were both complete gullible fools who did not ask any questions of security staff when these issues kept appearing in the media.
Todays developments continue the establishment's desperate attempt to suppress the truth. Ministers appear to have decided on the advice of the security services that they could not afford to risk the exposure of thousands of documents in open court on how Britain co-operated with the US on the so-called extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects.
Still they try to cover up their crimes. Yet again 'National Security' is used to justify the unjustifiable. The latest wheeze involves using millions of taxpayers cash to buy silence. The judge appointed to hold the Inquiry into the whole affair is already complicit with the security services. So no surprise there. We are also waiting for the Police to complete their enquiries into two cases, "which could go on for several months." So why the rush to conclude these matters?
Perhaps the money used to buy silence could come from the reprehensible Tony Blair? He has a bit to spare - although he would be well advised to put some on one side for the day he eventually appears in court.
Ken Clarke gave the game away in his statement to the House today. "We want to draw a line and move on." You bet they do. Straw and Miliband welcomed the decision to pay millions so long as confidentiality was maintained. No surprise there either.
Whichever way you look at it - it stinks.
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