On torture

Another charming reminder of what actually the "special" (sic) relationship entails once again with the case of Binyam Mohamed, just out of Guantanamo and presumably not the biggest fan of liberal democracy given how it has treated him in recent years.

The US government could "inflict on the citizens of the United Kingdom a very considerable increase in the dangers they face at a time when a serious terrorist threat still pertains" if the full details of the torture, undertaken by thugs of said government and to which UK intelligence was complicit, was revealed. Effectively this means that if Blighty makes a fuss the US stops helping us with intelligence sharing. Thanks guys!

ETTL will never understand successive British governments' subservience to Washington. If not at the point where UK residents are being tortured by them, and then a threat is made to stop help if the rule of law is enforced, at what time will Britain stop being pissed on by l'hyperpower?

Maybe if Mr Mohamed were blonde and female?