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David Davies, a Conservative Party MP and who I think you have previously acknowledged as a committed civil libertarian, has adopted a new tack in exposing torture and abuse committed against terrorist suspects.
He's using Westminster parliamentary privilege - a privilege that basically safeguards unfettered free speech - to put evidence of these abuses onto the official parliamentary record.
Here's the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/08/mi5-torture-evidence-david-davis/print
Real journalists, and real democratic politicians, we've never more urgently needed them.
