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February 24th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The bill was presented to parliament on 28 November 2012, and completed its House of Lords Committee stage on 7 February 2013. It had its second reading debate on 18 December 2013, and is doe to have its report stage and third reading on a date yet to be announced.
The controversial Bill has been watered down by Cabinet Minister Ken Clarke after it sustained several humiliating defeats in the House of Lords.
However, human rights campaigners believe that the government must rewrite its plans to hold court cases covering national security behind closed doors.
According to campaigners, the Bill in its current format will “undermine centuries of open justice and erode Britain’s moral standing in the world”.
Under the plans for ‘closed material proceedings’ defendants or claimants will not be allowed to be present, know or challenge the case against them and must be represented by a security-cleared advocate, rather than their own lawyer.
According to Anthony Peto QC and Andrew Tyrie MP in “Neither Just Nor Secure”, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, “the Justice and Security Bill, in its current form, would be a step in the wrong direction”.
The report explains: “Too many features of the Bill are designed to address the awkward consequences of disclosure of wrongdoing; too little is being done to ensure that Britain closes the chapter on extraordinary rendition.”
According to the report: “That Britain allowed itself to be dragged into complicity in “extraordinary rendition” – the kidnap and torture of individuals as a matter of policy – is a disgrace. That, nearly a decade later, the extent and limits of Britain’s involvement are still unknown is almost as shocking…”.
Andrew Tyrie MP warns that the government is in danger of “closing down access to the truth”.
The MP also said people will be deterred from providing information to the police if the government expands secret courts and increases the public’s distrust of the authorities.
“Unless this bill is further amended, this and future governments could find themselves accused, not just of closing down access to justice, but access to the truth as well”, he said.
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, president of the Law Society, said that “secret trials and non-disclosure of evidence are characteristics most commonly associated with repressive regimes and undemocratic societies”.
According to human rights campaigners, the government has published a Bill which would mean that in future, UK complicity in torture and rendition will be covered up, rather than brought to light.
They said the Bill contains a number of measures which would make it extremely difficult to hold the government or its intelligence agencies to account over complicity in acts such as rendition and torture.
“After a decade which has seen our intelligence agencies become involved in unprecedented wrongdoings, we should be asking how we could stop this from ever happening again – not how to remove the safeguards which allow us to hold the state and its agencies to account”.
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