The London Cage And The Official Secrets Act 1911

Tom Maguire looks at whether the Brits used torture during WWII. As noted below, "The London Cage" was kept classified under the Official Secrets Act of 1911. At link, it mentions 2006. That could be one reason for the scant referencing.

I see that Michael Tomasky of the Guardian has joined in, so the meme that Churchill tortured is lefty-approved. Let me add that after twenty minutes with Google, I could only find the Guardian stories from 2005 (and derivative versions) with the news about the London Cage and Andrew Scotland. Well, that plus courtroom allegations by a Nazi war criminal.

Cataloged here:

Publication of book 'The London Cage' by Lt Col A P Scotland: retention of his manuscripts under the Official Secrets Act 1911

Record opening date 20 Jan 2006

Comments

[Lala]

A good comment was made there about O's Kenyan grandfather being tortured under a Churchill administration. Did he forget? Maybe it's the kid who writes his speeches in the coffee shop who's at fault here. Stick it on the tp and O will read it?

[Xerocky]

O's got his own version of history. Remember when Obama cited Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman as presidents who met with enemies? Does he know no history at all? Neither Roosevelt nor Truman ever met with any of the leaders of the Axis powers. Obama must be referring to the pictures he's seen of Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, and Truman and Stalin at Potsdam. Does he not know that at that time Stalin was a wartime ally?

Remember when the U.K. gave Bush a bust of Churchill that for some reason Obama gave back? For Obama who probably sees himself as more of a Kenyan than an American, it may have made a degree of sense. It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather. Which would be an extremely strange thing for Obama to not know, while citing Churchill as a shining example of a non torturer.

Obama seems to know jack shit about history. Which is bad.