Saturday, May 29, 2010

In other news about Con transparency...

After negotiating down an order to produce Afghanistan torture documents in full to a process allowing them to be examined by a small group of MPs under an oath of confidentiality, the Cons are once again looking for excuses to declare unilaterally that their choice of documents can't even be examined by the group that's sworn to secrecy.

Needless to say, the only reasonable opposition response would be to say that if the Cons are planning to withhold documents through the agreed process, then full enforcement of the original order is back on the table. But more likely the sneak attack will be quietly removed (or worse yet, used as the basis for other concessions to the Cons), and the lesson about Con "cooperation" once again forgotten.

(Edit: fixed wording, added parenthetical.)

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