Binyam-should we care about our US relations?

There is much in the papers about yesterday's high court ruling over the Binyam Mohamed case.

The spotlight will surely turn to the foreign secretary who the Times says persuaded senior judges to erase “exceptionally damning criticism” of MI5 from their ruling yesterday.

However the repercussions will go a lot further with the White House The White House saying yesterday's ruling was "deeply disappointing" and that it "complicates" the UK-US intelligence sharing relationship.

For a view from across the water read Marc Ambinder in the Atlantic who believes that

I think this is a bluff. The US shares more raw data and polished intel product with Britain on a daily basis than any other country in the world, and that's not going to change. Perhaps the US will be more careful in certain documents that might find their way into the UK court system -- but it's hard to imagine that intelligence cooperation between the two countries will really be damaged by today's revelation. Indeed, the information -- that Mohamed was subject to sleep deprivation and threatening behavior before 9/11 -- makes the US more vulnerable to court challenges from detainees, and possibly even to an international inquiry -- but the real and present damage to national security is hard to ascertain.