Long one of the closest intelligence partners of the United States, the CIA is now withholding data from British officials, even related to threats inside Britain, fearing that the nation’s court system isn’t nearly secretive enough.
UK officials say that the CIA warned Britain’s MI6 only in general terms about a “Mumbai-style” attack by al-Qaeda some 18 months ago, but refused to provide any specific details and left Britain to figure everything out themselves.
The Obama Administration has had it in for Britain and its annoying transparency since February 2010, when British courts revealed US torture of UK citizen and Gitmo detainee Binyam Mohamed, and US officials warned that it would harm “future intelligence sharing.”
It apparently has, and UK Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said he believes that the US is “nervous that we are going to start revealing information and they have started cutting back.” The British government was against the court’s revelation of Mohamed’s mistreatment, claiming it was a threat to national security to admit that they knowingly allowed his torture in US custody.
Im sure Britain will continue to bend over and take it from their master's in Washington like the good little colony they are.
Ha ha. Yeah, as far as I can tell, this is the current hierarchy of power: Israel, who's lapdog is the U.S., and Britain, who is the U.S.'s lapdog. Perhaps Saudi Arabia fits in there somewhere too.
"…fearing that the nation’s [British] court system isn’t nearly secretive enough.."
Is that diplospeak for "they're not bought and paid for" like the American judicial system?
What ever happened to that inquiries about Tony Blair lies about Iraq war, what did he had in common with Bush regime, ahhh, to hell with it, where is justice that these people are talking about, where is the law which would prosecute these people. these inquiries can come and go, but where is the justice, is it sold, or auctioned or given away, what I want to know to whom, in terms of democracy, did people have anything to say about it or the justice was auctioned off without any notice given to people, now thats secrecy.
How ironic that the US outlasted the Soviet Union only to become the Soviet Union.
And maybe- just maybe- the British are seeing an inkling of what happens when the US decides you are an expendable asset. For further details, I encourage them to read up on the fates of Diem, Hussein, and bin Laden, and the entire nation of Libya.
The source article in the British Telegraph is a plant and the author, Robert Winnett, has allowed himself to be used (I suspect wittingly) by MI6 to suggest that they are already complaing that they are not getting the full intelligence due to the fact that their secrets may end up in open court.
Which is why Cameron has been urged by them to introduce legislation which would circumvent the possibility of this happening; all of whick has caused so much of a backlash in the last few days that even the egregious BBC has been unable to ignore it.
Apart from the fact that the news of intelligence from the US to the UK apparently foiling "Mumbai-style attacks" is itself extremely dodgy, that the US would omit to pass on intelligence of this kind to the UK is simply unbelievable as a UK judge poited out in the Binyam Mohammed case along with stating that the information that niether the UK nor US Govts. wanted disclosed could in no way be desribed as intelligence protecting relating to national security.
There is a battle going on about the legislation on so called "secret courts".