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January 25, 2006
Secret Memo on British Involvolment in CIA Flights Now Available
The Newstatesman has published the full version of the secret Foreign Office memo on British involvement in US rendition flights.
As Tony Blair prepared to face Commons questions about British involvement in early December, his officials asked the Foreign Office for a briefing document. The resulting memo, signed by Irfan Siddiq, a private secretary at the Foreign Office, and addressed to Grace Cassy, assistant private secretary at No 10 Downing Street, paints an astonishing picture.Extraordinary rendition, it declares bluntly, "is almost certainly illegal", and if Britain co-operated with an illegal act of this kind, "such an act would also be illegal".
The PDF file of the memo can be read here
Posted by andrew on January 25, 2006 7:46 PM in the category UK Policy