Once again, the British Foreign Office is threatening to ban the book of a former diplomat member who has criticized the government of Tony Blair. As a Guardian story by David Leigh reports, the author in question is former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, who has written a book saying British intelligence agency MI6 “was taking information via the CIA obtained by torture” in Uzbekistan. Murray, who once opposed foreign secretary Jack Straw in an election, says the use of such intelligence “is morally, legally, and practically wrong.” Some in the diplomatic corps have countered that “they did not know for a fact whether informants had been tortured,” but Murray says “I will not attempt to hide my utter contempt for such casuistry, nor my shame that I work for an organisation where colleagues would resort to it to justify torture.” Refusing to submit his book for censorship barely a week after former UN ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock had sections of his book blocked by the FO, Murray says he is taking legal action of his own against the government: “So if you want to take action under the Official Secrets Act, I suggest you get on with it”.