Detainee Doc Dump Only the 'Initial' Set of Files

But the thousands more pages on the matter won't be released without an agreement in place to do so.

Despite the Conservative government saying that the release of 4,000 pages of documents on Afghan detainees brought the affair to an end, the judges in charge of reviewing the records told Justice Minister Rob Nicholson that those files were just the “initial set of documents” on the matter. However, the panel of MPs and judges charged with reviewing the documents wasn't renewed when the new Parliament opened after the election. What this amounts to is that there are thousands more pages of memos, emails, and reports on the handling of detainees that won't see the light of day so long as MPs do not strike up a new process for reviewing which files can be released. And with a Conservative majority that desperately wants to move on from the matter, there is little appetite for doing so.