She said this would allow ministers to trigger a secret court procedure when defending claims in cases involving allegations of extraordinary rendition, complicity with torture.
Straw has nothing to say about American use of (and possible British complicity in) extraordinary rendition.
Yet it does seem likely, following the recent correction of a ministerial statement, that there was some British complicity in extraordinary rendition.
The British government's settlement agreement to pay compensation to former Guantánamo detainees over claims that they were unlawfully captured and abused while in custody is a meaningful, though not complete, government statement on its complicity in extraordinary rendition and torture.
I hope the Intelligence and Security Committee of UK MPs will do a better job on GCHQ's Project Tempora than they did in investigating UK complicity in extraordinary rendition.
A few days later lawyers for both families began civil proceedings against Sir Mark Allen, the former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, accusing him of complicity in their "extraordinary rendition", torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.
Arizona senator Jeff Flake has launched an extraordinary attack against Donald Trump and the "complicity" of the Republican party as he announced his decision to leave the Senate.
As the evidence of MI5 and MI6 complicity with CIA black sites, "extraordinary rendition", waterboarding and genital mutilation has built up – from Bagram to Guantánamo, Pakistan to Morocco – court case has followed police investigation.
The first allegations of British complicity in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, by letting their white kidnap airplanes land and fuel up at our airports, was simply shrugged off as a "conspiracy theory" by the British government.
In Amnesty International's annual report, which is published today, for the eighth year running we are enumerating serious human rights violations committed by the UK – from the ongoing use of control orders to the attempts to deport terror suspects to torture states and alleged complicity in the practise of extraordinary rendition.
