So it seems that they dont want us to know about what they are doing. They even threaten but im sure it's "wink wink nude nude" threats.
but here is an article from the times :
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U.S. Again Warns Britain on Detainee Memo
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By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: May 14, 2009
LONDON — Renewing a warning given to Britain while President George W. Bush was in office, the Obama administration has threatened to curb the exchange of intelligence information between the countries if a British court makes public the details of the interrogation techniques used against a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who claims he was tortured.
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Binyam Mohamed, 30, a former Guantánamo detainee, is now living in Britain.
In a letter forwarded to the High Court in London by British government lawyers this month, the Obama administration said the flow of information could be affected if the court made public a summary prepared by the Bush administration for Britain’s Foreign Office on the treatment of the former detainee, Binyam Mohamed. Mr. Mohamed, 30, a citizen of Ethiopia who was arrested as a suspected terrorist in Pakistan in 2002, was released from Guantánamo and flown to Britain three months ago.
Lawyers acting on his behalf confirmed that a letter containing the Obama administration’s warning was submitted by the British government to the court hearing a petition by a group of news organizations, including The New York Times, that are seeking the release of the Bush administration memo.
The renewed threat of curbs on intelligence cooperation was first reported by news agencies covering the British court case last week, and quotations from the Obama administration letter appeared in The Washington Times on Tuesday.
Although the Obama administration has criticized the harsh interrogation methods approved during the Bush years and has vowed to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the White House has declined to take certain tough actions demanded by critics of the previous administration’s stances.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, George Little, said that the issue would not cause a breach in American-British relations, “including on matters related to counterterrorism.”
Lawyers involved in the court case are bound by a court order not to disclose the contents of crucial documents, including the letter threatening curbs on intelligence cooperation, at least until the judges decide whether to order the publication of the summary of Mr. Mohamed’s treatment. That decision is expected within weeks. But the lawyers confirmed the accuracy of the quotations from the letter that appeared in The Washington Times.
The letter warned that if the British government “is unable to protect information we provide to it, even if that inability is caused by your judicial system, we will necessarily have to review with the greatest care the sensitivity of information we can provide in the future.”
The letter also said the “seven paragraphs at issue are based upon classified information shared between our countries,” and that “public disclosure of this information reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the United Kingdom’s national security” if the United States withheld intelligence information in the future.
Under pressure from the British government, Mr. Mohamed was flown to Britain in February after terrorist charges against him at Guantánamo were abandoned. The charges were dropped after American officials acknowledged that some of the evidence against him was obtained during the questioning of Abu Zubaydah, a senior figure in Al Qaeda who was subjected to waterboarding — simulated drowning.
Britain sought Mr. Mohamed’s his return to Britain on the grounds that he gained the temporary right of asylum here in the mid-1990s. He was released from custody hours after arriving in Britain. He has claimed that he was tortured during the seven years he was moved by the United States to prisons in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan before he was taken to Guantánamo.
He has said that interrogators in Morocco tortured him by using razor blades to score his genitals and chest. He has denied American claims that he attended a Qaeda-run terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
The Obama administration was dealt a setback in another case involving Mr. Mohamed last month when a federal appeals court ruled that a civil lawsuit brought by him and four other men who say they were tortured could proceed. The Bush administration had intervened in the suit against an American aircraft services company that was contracted to assist in the transfer of detainees, asking a judge to throw out the case because its subject matter was a state secret.
The Obama administration pressed forward with its predecessor’s stance. The court said the government could ask judges to conduct a case-by-case review of what documents to disclose.
Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington, and Raymond Bonner from St. Andrews, Scotland.
