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With more of those who were criminally mistreated turning to courts in their own countries for recognition of their ordeals, the efforts of U.S. officials to suppress evidence and escape accountability now extend overseas.

summarize the contents of 42 documents the CIA sent to British intelligence agencies describing the interrogation of in Pakistan in 2002. The paragraphs were part of the written opinion of a British court which concluded that the 鈥渟leep deprivation, threats, and inducements鈥� Mohamed was subjected to during the interrogation 鈥渨ould clearly have been in breach鈥� of the Convention Against Torture.

The United States government not only successfully fought the public release of those 42 documents, it threatened to disrupt the intelligence-sharing relationship between the U.K. and the U.S. if these summary paragraphs appeared in the court's published opinion. It took a 鈥� in a case it declared went to the heart of 鈥渄emocratic accountability and the rule of last itself鈥濃�� to force the restoration of the paragraphs to the opinion more than a year later.

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