'Torture' litigation costs begin at $60 million

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Gordon Brown

LONDON – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided that "at least" $60 million taxpayer cash will be spent to meet the legal costs for damage cases lodged against the government by six former Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The six are suing MI5 and MI6, claiming the security services were complicit in alleged torture.

Seventy-five of Britain's top lawyers have been retained by the government to analyze almost a million documents related to the Guantanamo Bay claimants.

The cases will be heard separately, and both the lawyers for the government and plaintiffs say that to hear them could take up to five years.

All six of the defendants are receiving legal aid, and one estimate has put the final costs of the litigation at around $90 million.

"This is going to be an astronomical legal bill," said a Whitehall source.

But this week it became clear that it is not only MI5 and MI6 who are the prime defendants.

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