Friday, February 12, 2010

Another “Torture” Non-Scandal

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“UK authorities had been involved in and facilitated the ill-treatment and torture to which [Mohamed] was subjected while under the control of USA authorities.”

With yesterday’s release, civil liberties groups on the Left have also claimed vindication. In the triumphant words of a spokesman for Liberty, Britain’s equivalent of the ACLU, the released paragraphs reveal that the British government “has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up kidnap and torture.”

These are substantial charges. They are also demonstrably untrue.

As even a cursory reading of the High Court’s summary shows, the paragraphs in question say nothing about torture.

Here is what the paragraphs actually say:

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