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[StephanieVanbryce]

Obama administration threatens Britain to keep torture evidence concealed

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That definitive evidence came, and it leaves no doubt that these threats to the British government are now being issued every bit as emphatically from Obama. I've obtained a copy of the letter excerpts submitted to the British court (.pdf - see pages 6-9), submitted by the British Government to prove that the U.S., under Obama, is continuing to make these threats. Here are key excerpts from the Obama administration's letter; just marvel at what the U.S. is saying to Britian:

the document is at the link, I'm unable to print it

In other words: if you let your courts describe how we tortured Mohamed -- even if your laws compel such disclosure -- we may purposely leave your citizens vulnerable to future terrorist attacks by withholding information we obtain about terrorist plots. Smith re-iterated to Lake what he told me last month: that the Obama administration's actions in issuing these threats in order to hide evidence of torture is itself a criminal act:

.........there is much here, Greenwalds posts are always long and detailed with tons of links .. It's a really good ! .. I am now posting the last paragraph , I repeat, if interested please read the whole thing ... !

Those are just facts that won't disappear no matter how much one wishes them away. Here is a Guardian article detailing the hearing at which British government lawyers made these claims, and here is an Associated Press article detailing the time line and how the Obama administration just this last week re-iterated the Bush threats.

Miliband's lawyers try to block CIA report on torture claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/01/binyam-mohamed-
miliband-cia-guantanamo

Media groups win battle against UK govt
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5junnlo64ITDwX7j8laiUSbOIYtIgD980V0F82

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/12/obama/