Legal Commentary

Obama, Clinton Threaten To Cut Off Intelligence To Brits If Torture Evidence Exposed

By Big Tent Democrat

Glenn Greenwald:

In May, The Washington Times' Eli Lake reported that an extraordinary letter sent to the British by the Obama administration proved that "the Obama administration [said] it may curtail Anglo-American intelligence sharing if the British High Court discloses new details of the treatment of a former Guantanamo detainee." . . . [N]ow, The Guardian reports that . . . threats were issued by the Obama administration not only in the form of that previously disclosed letter, but also personally by Hillary Clinton in a May meeting with him and other British officials:

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, personally intervened to suppress evidence of CIA collusion in the torture of a British resident, the high court heard today. . . . David Miliband, the [British] foreign secretary . . . met Clinton in Washington on 12 May this year.

The most amazing thing about this to me is, except for Dan Froomkin when he blogged for the Post, this story has been completely ignored by the American Media. Watchdogs indeed.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).