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Originally Posted by Damien
I like how Clegg has the occasional public show of concern and backbone before invariably falling in line. I suspect this, alongside the Internet surveillance, will go though unchanged after the Liberal Democrats get told what to do and Labour dithers with some half-hearted cowardly response (usually refusing to offer much of an opinion of the bills but, darn it, didn't the government mishandle it?).
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Ken Clark let the cat out of the bag in my opinion with this statement
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Some of the evidence disclosed in those cases was based on material supplied by the CIA and, ever since, Clarke said, the US intelligence services had become "nervous that we're going to start revealing some of the information".
"They have started cutting back, I'm assured, on what they disclose," he said, while cautioning that he had not been given specific details. "I'm told that in fact the Americans have been extremely cautious since the Binyam Mohamed case and it's getting in the way of co-operation."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/a...?newsfeed=true
Reading between the lines the government is trying to get this through to keep the yanks happy and to ensure they can extradite and prosecute people on the flimsiest of evidence with no due process