Nothing could be clearer. David Miliband, then Labour’s Foreign Secretary, laying claim to the moral high ground, proclaiming: ‘I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it’s perfectly clear to me it is torture. ‘I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.’ His uncompromising comments came in an interview in the New Statesman magazine in 2009. Scroll down for video David Miliband tried to use the court system over a period of six months to block publication of the fact that MI5 had connived in the torture of one suspect, Binyam Mohamed
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David Miliband tried to use courts  to keep truth of suspect's torture secret
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Binyam Mohamed detained on suspicion of attending Al Qaeda  camp
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Court documents said Mohamed subjected to 'cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the U.S. authorities'
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British intelligence services complicit in this, according to the documents
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Mohamed was later awarded £1 million compensation
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Miliband's supporters insist he was not fully aware of US torture details
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He now earns £300,000 a year running international human rights charity
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