Scotland Yard has been ordered to reveal whether it has any evidence to support America's claim that Britain was saved from a 9/11-style disaster by the CIA's secret foreign interrogation centres. The Times has won a case under the Freedom of Information Act forcing British police to say whether the US stopped a plot to fly planes into Canary Wharf and Heathrow. The claim was made by President Bush when he first acknowledged the existence of a clandestine CIA prison network created to fight his War on Terror. The Office of the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, has upheld a complaint that the Metropolitan Police was wrong to stonewall inquiries by The Times. Scotland Yard has been given 35 days to comply or appeal. If it admits that there is no such intelligence, it would undermine any political defence for America's strong-arm tactics in fighting terrorism. If such information does exist, it would boost supporters of the policy of "extraordinary rendition", giving a justification for their methods. The Information Commissioner's Office dismissed all of Scotland Yard's arguments for refusing even to say whether it holds any information about the CIA foiling London's "9/11".
Scotland Yard has been ordered to reveal whether it has any evidence to support America's claim that Britain was saved from a 9/11-style disaster by the CIA's secret foreign interrogation centres.
The Times has won a case under the Freedom of Information Act forcing British police to say whether the US stopped a plot to fly planes into Canary Wharf and Heathrow. The claim was made by President Bush when he first acknowledged the existence of a clandestine CIA prison network created to fight his War on Terror.
The Office of the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, has upheld a complaint that the Metropolitan Police was wrong to stonewall inquiries by The Times. Scotland Yard has been given 35 days to comply or appeal. If it admits that there is no such intelligence, it would undermine any political defence for America's strong-arm tactics in fighting terrorism. If such information does exist, it would boost supporters of the policy of "extraordinary rendition", giving a justification for their methods.
The Information Commissioner's Office dismissed all of Scotland Yard's arguments for refusing even to say whether it holds any information about the CIA foiling London's "9/11".
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