The Curmudgeon

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Protecting Our Values

A Libyan dissident has been denied leave to sue Jack Straw and MI6 over his alleged abduction, along with his pregnant wife, and his torture by some employees of the Reverend Tony's former chum, Colonel Gaddafi. The judge said that the case was "potentially well-founded", which presumably is what counted most against it, since the grounds for dismissal were that the national interest might be damaged. Despite Daveybloke's recent grovel towards Beijing, damage to the national interest remains the favoured Newspeak term for embarrassing to the Americans; it seems that MI6 were acting in collaboration with the CIA, presumably because one or other of them had nothing more important to do. Fortunately, yesterday's decision to abandon a judge-led inquiry in favour of a whitewash by the ISC will very likely help to keep the special relationship as productive and reciprocal as ever.

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