As a member of the Privy Council, which meant she could see top secret information, Ms Short was under a special obligation of confidentiality and there were even suggestions that she could be stripped of the title “Right Honourable”
Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, disclosed that GCHQ was being asked to find personal information that would allow Britain and America to blackmail diplomats in New York. But second and more importantly, she believed GCHQ was being asked to undermine the democratic processes of the United Nations.
I have no doubt whatever that if Parliament had been told these things, the Government would not have achieved its majority and been unable to go to war. Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesman.
She goes on to say the United States “does not condone torture”.
However
A Feb. 7, 2002 memorandum released on June 22 2004 by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, “President George W. Bush authorized his senior aides to withhold Geneva Convention protections from suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees”
notafreemason said
This was a very personal operation by Tony Blair – Cabinet minister Clare Short
As a member of the Privy Council, which meant she could see top secret information, Ms Short was under a special obligation of confidentiality and there were even suggestions that she could be stripped of the title “Right Honourable”
Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, disclosed that GCHQ was being asked to find personal information that would allow Britain and America to blackmail diplomats in New York. But second and more importantly, she believed GCHQ was being asked to undermine the democratic processes of the United Nations.
Condoleezza Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war.
I have no doubt whatever that if Parliament had been told these things, the Government would not have achieved its majority and been unable to go to war. Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesman.
[Dec 06, 2005 The Times]: Condoleezza Rice states “This is a war in which intelligence is the absolute key to success” .
She goes on to say the United States “does not condone torture”.
However
A Feb. 7, 2002 memorandum released on June 22 2004 by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, “President George W. Bush authorized his senior aides to withhold Geneva Convention protections from suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees”
MI5 fingerprints found in Gitmo torture case:
Documents have revealed the involvement of the British security service, MI5, in the torture of a ‘terror’ suspect Binyam Mohamed, while in American detention.