Attention, AG Holder!! This article in The Guardian, UK shows us what real Judges upholding the Rule of Law in a real Court of Justice are about to do. Right on, Brit Judges!!

Binyam Mohamed: Judges overrule attempt to suppress torture evidence

High court orders publication of US report, saying British foreign secretary’s actions were harmful to the rule of law

[by] Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 October 2009 17.31 BST
Article history

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, acted in a way that was harmful to the rule of law by suppressing evidence about what the government knew of the illegal treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was held in a secret prison in Pakistan, the high court has ruled.

In a devastating judgment, two senior judges roundly dismissed the foreign secretary’s claims that disclosing the evidence would harm national security and threaten the UK’s vital intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.

In what they described as an “unprecedented” and “exceptional” case, to which the Guardian is a party, they ordered the release of a seven-paragraph summary of what the CIA told British officials – and maybe ministers – about Ethiopian-born Mohamed before he was secretly interrogated by an MI5 officer in 2002.

“The suppression of reports of wrongdoing by officials in circumstances which cannot in any way affect national security is inimical to the rule of law,” Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ruled. “Championing the rule of law, not subordinating it, is the cornerstone of democracy.”

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“In our view, as a court in the United Kingdom, a vital public interest requires, for reasons of democratic accountability and the rule of law in the United Kingdom, that a summary of the most important evidence relating to the involvement of the British security services in wrongdoing be placed in the public domain in the United Kingdom.”

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In the end, Miliband had to rely for help on a CIA letter to MI6 claiming that disclosure of the document would harm the security of the US and UK.

The judges made it clear they did not believe the claim was credible. “The public interest in making the paragraphs public is overwhelming,” they said.

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Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, admitted in a speech at Bristol University on Thursday that the Security Service had been “slow to detect the emerging pattern of US practice in the period after 9/11″.

“But it is important to recognise that we do not control what other countries do, that operational decisions have to be taken with the knowledge available, even if it is incomplete, and that when the emerging pattern of US policy was detected, necessary improvements were made.”

He repeated the mantra that MI5 “does not torture people, nor do we collude in torture or solicit others to torture people on our behalf”.

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[All emphasis mine - had difficulty restraining myself.]

Please read the full article at the link above; I just might be a bit biased in my selection of portions to excerpt. (heh,heh)

[Hat tip to BB for her alert to this breaking good news.]

I do not include all Judges in the US Courts in my opening statements, for some have been very courageous and true to the Rule of Law in their rulings regarding suppression of evidence on the basis of national security when there is reason to believe that it is being used as a cover up for embarrassing or criminal conduct. Those Judges deserve our honor and highest praise.