Some torture related thoughts

The Mail reports that:

'Tony Blair was accused of ordering Jack Straw to 'violate the law' as the row over Britain colluding in torture took a new twist.

Previously secret documents exposed their alleged roles in sanctioning British citizens being sent to Guantanamo Bay, where they were abused.

For the first time, the former Prime Minister's office is implicated in a series of explosive classified files which Labour ministers battled to suppress but which have been released on the orders of the High Court.

They cast a new light on Britain's dirty secret and lay bare the extent to which the Labour government allegedly turned a blind eye to the abduction and torturing of its own citizens.

Among the startling new revelations are:

* Mr Blair's office gave direct orders to the Foreign Office to deny help to a British citizen later taken by the CIA to the Guantanamo prison.
* Mr Straw, then Foreign Secretary, decided in January 2002 that Guantanamo was the 'best way' to ensure UK nationals were 'securely held'.
* The Foreign Office issued instructions that transferring British citizens from Afghanistan to Guantanamo was its 'preferred option'.

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Read the whole article and wonder why David Cameron is not more keen for the lies of the last Labour government to be uncovered.


The passage that sums up the last Labour government's moral compass and sense of responsibility was this:

'Mr Blair has repeatedly refused to say whether he will appear before the inquiry, despite four former Labour ministers - Mr Straw, David Blunkett, David Miliband and Alan Johnson - indicating that they would give evidence to former appeal Court judge Sir Peter Gibson's inquiry if requested.'

Tony Blair must be held to account for his actions as Prime Minister, but will he be? Mind you unless he is under oath and wired to a lie-detector I don't think that I will believe his 'evidence' anyway.