MI5 officers have been accused by a senior judge of having a "dubious record" over the treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed.
Lord Neuberger said some officers had been less than frank about what they knew about Mr Mohamed's ill-treatment.
His criticism was made public after an exceptionally unusual court decision to publish his draft legal opinion on MI5's respect for human rights.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband rejected the suggestion MI5 had lied.
However, he said he was disappointed by a Court of Appeal decision on Friday to publish Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger's comments.
The judge's full criticism of MI5 officers had initially been omitted from a judgement published earlier this month after the government protested it went "well beyond" anything found by the High Court judges.
Mr Miliband said: "The judges have a complete right to express their opinions, that's important in a free society. Equally, the government doesn't have to agree with everything that they say."
Well, this is fishy. MI5 should not participate in just sitting back and letting torture happen; apparantly they misled Parliament. How can they expect to take the moral highground when Binyam Mohamed's human rights weren't respected?
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