Harriet Harman Under Attack Over Bid to Water Down Child Pornography Law

From March 2009:

'Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality Harriet Harman’s political judgement has been called into question after it emerged that she once advocated the watering down of child pornography laws. documents showing that she called on ministers to make sexually explicit photographs or films of children legal unless there was evidence that the subject had been harmed.'

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Fury as Harriet Harman Claims Opponents of DNA Database are 'Against Justice'

Harriet Harman provoked outrage yesterday by accusing opponents of the Government's DNA database policy of 'putting themselves against justice'.
Labour's deputy leader waded into the database row following the announcement this week of Government plans that innocent people will have to wait up to 12 years before their DNA is erased.

In the Commons yesterday, Lib-Dem spokesman David Heath accused ministers of showing an 'inability to understand what the word innocent means'.
And Shadow Commons Leader Alan Duncan claimed the Government had 'little regard for civil liberty and justice'.

Miss Harman countered: 'I would say quite the opposite - this is us having regard for justice.'

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'You're either with us or your with the Terrorists'

How Hard is it For the Truth to be Heard

Yesterday Harriet Harman was lying through her teeth on the Andrew Marr show, claiming that the Government had never had any idea any of its intelligence was coming through torture.

Meanwhile, the Government has refused to testify on this subject before the Parliamentary Joint Commission on Human Rights, where such lies may have consequences.

If Harman is telling the truth, what do Ministers have to hide from the Parliamentary Commission?

Of course, she is not telling the truth.

I today sent this memorandum to the Joint Commission on Human Rights, offering to give evidence before them - if Ministers won't tell them what is happening, perhaps I can:

I wish to offer myself as a witness before the Joint Commission on Human Rights on the subject of the UK government's policy on intelligence cooperation with torture abroad.

I appeared as a witness in person before both the European Parliament and European Council's enquiries into extraordinary rendition. My evidence was described by the European Council's Rapporteur, Senator Dick Marty, as "Compelling and valuable".

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