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Sunday, May 17, 2009

David Miliband Presses for Gag on CIA Memo

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, tonight made a fresh attempt to stop high court judges from disclosing information about what Britain's security and intelligence agencies knew of the ill-treatment and alleged torture of a UK resident.

In his third demand for a gagging order, he argued that "real harm to the national security and international relations of the United Kingdom would be caused" if a seven-paragraph summary of CIA intelligence information was disclosed.

Miliband made his last-ditch attempt to suppress the information on a day when Paul Jenkins, the government's most senior lawyer, told the high court in a separate, hotly disputed case that he had written to senior officials throughout Whitehall reminding them of "the rigorous nature and extent of our duties of disclosure".

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