Thank You President Obama. You have provided evidence to prosecute Blair.

[TheBigotBasher]

Now that President Obama has released the Bush torture memorandums I can not see how Blair could not have known that this was happening either. Blair was the right hand man to Bush in Europe. He was the one to sell war with a smile. I have no doubt that he knew and probably authorised British Security Service officials to do the very same. The US for whatever reason may not wish to prosecute War Crimes, the UK should not follow the US down the same path.

President Obama has provided evidence to go for the criminal prosecution of Tony Blair. I hope that the Crown Prosecution Service now looks very closely at those memos.

[Imagevision]

1. umm.. Blair is currently employed by The Carlyle Group to give speeches...

[Egnever]

2. Why does that not surprise me in the least.

the op is tilting at windmills though IMHO.

[TheBigotBasher]

4. Hardly tilting at windmills.

..Brown spoke out after David Miliband insisted that to disclose US intelligence in the case of the alleged CIA torture of a British resident in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp would damage national security.

In a statement to MPs, the foreign secretary rejected suggestions that the US had threatened to "break off" cooperation with the UK if it made public documents on the treatment by the US of Binyam Mohamed, 30, an Ethiopian-born UK resident being held in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Mohamed claims that British agencies were complicit in his torture.

Two senior judges said yesterday that the US government had threatened to review its intelligence-sharing relationship with the UK if the material was made public. The high court ruled that the dossier provided by the US authorities ought to remain secret, but criticised the US over the way it had sought to prevent the information from being released.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/05/guantanamo-miliband-torture

If the UK was complicit in torture than this needs prosecuting.

[Hutzpa]

3. Sometimes I really do wonder

the type of brains people carry, what will lead someone to type without first thinking
the impact they might create, unless their motive is to create that impact in the first
place.

[TheBigotBasher]

5. So Blair knew nothing?

THE government has apologised to two High Court judges after discovering that an MI5 officer misled them over the case of a British terrorist suspect allegedly tortured while in America’s extraordinary rendition programme.

Lawyers for David Miliband, the foreign secretary, said it was “a matter of great regret” that during “a full and independent review of the case” they had uncovered 13 new documents suggesting that the official account of Britain’s knowledge of what was happening to Binyam Mohamed was inaccurate.

The documents reveal as false the claim by a senior MI5 manager, known as witness A, in the High Court last year that the last information MI5 received from the CIA about Mohamed’s whereabouts was in February 2003. One letter says: “A sentence in the open witness statement of witness A, which stated the last interview report received by the Security Service was in February 2003, is incorrect.”

Mohamed, 31, has always claimed British intelligence officers were complicit in his treatment. His lawyers have forced the government to hand over 42 secret documents that support his assertions, including that MI5 officers interviewed him in Pakistan.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6122797.ece

All the enablers in this need to face trial on both sides of the Atlantic. It should not be limited to ordinary members of the Security Services either. It should go all the way to the top.

[Hutzpa]

6. I need to do more research on

this before commenting further. My instinct is saying otherwise, the sad truth is, Tony Blair
is guilty of allowing Bush into misleading him about the motive for the Iraq war, that he is
guilty of.

It's the feeling of our cousins are in danger and no matter what we should support
them and deal with the consequences later, which unfortunately has become detrimental
IMHO.

[TheBigotBasher]

7. Blair was never against the war

he just wanted to market it better.