Source · Select Committees · Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation 4
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In our view, there is nothing on the face of the bill which would support...
Conclusion
In our view, there is nothing on the face of the bill which would support the Secretary of State’s insistence that a mere ‘risk’ of damaging national security constitutes a high bar, nor that the bill’s threshold corresponds to the bar set in other comparable legal proceedings for preventing disclosure. (Conclusion, Paragraph 44)