Another Political / Intelligence Masterstroke!

It seems that millions of pounds of compensation are to be paid by the British government to some of those interned in Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11762636

Irrespective of the innocence or guilt of those interned surely the payment of compensation is a near absolute admission that their internment was wrong and hands an enormous propaganda victory to those rallying support for attacks on British troops or terrorist action elsewhere.

Most disturbingly, from an earlier version of the BBC report, it seems that ‘hundreds of agents’ had been ‘working round the clock’ to prepare to fight a case against compensation being paid; presumably the Intelligence Services are so well funded that they can spare these agents from protecting the population from actual acts of terror. On the updated BBC report these ‘hundreds of agents’ have been downgraded to ‘at least 60 government lawyers and officials have been working through some of the 500,000 documents relating to the case’; presumably this sounds better but it is probably just as expensive! :rolleyes: