Government urged to come clean on co-operation over CIA secret prisons

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Source: The Guardian

The government is coming under pressure to reveal the full extent of its co-operation with the CIA's secret prison network and what it knew about the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, including a British resident.

MPs and the courts are seeking disclosure of documents that would shed light on how ministers and officials - including the security and intelligence agencies - responded behind the scenes to US practices they publicly abhorred.

Calls are also being made for the government to accept some Guantánamo detainees, an issue that will be on the agenda of a meeting of divided EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

Portugal and Spain have offered to take in detainees. Though other countries are reluctant to do so there is a growing view across Europe that accepting the 60 or so prisoners out of the 245 the US has agreed can be released would be one way of showing appreciation to Barack Obama for deciding to close the camp on the US base in Cuba and respect the Geneva conventions - something the Europeans have long urged Washington to do.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/24/guantana...

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1. The dungeon door creaks open...sunlight streams in through the cracks

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2. Come clean . . !!

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3. Yes . . .