Friday, June 29, 2018 –
6:23am
British spies were complicit in the torture of detainees by the
US in aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack, a damning report by a
cross-party group of MPs has found.
The intelligence and security committee (ISC) says MI6 and other
agencies knew early on that the US was mistreating detainees but
continued to assist at interrogations and provide questions to be
asked of prisoners.
Its findings reveal “that British involvement in George W Bush’s
illegal and barbarous programme of kidnap for torture was far
deeper and more extensive than we have previously been told”, says
the Daily Mail’s Peter Oborne.
In the two reports published yesterday, MPs say that on at least
two occasions UK intelligence officials were party to the torture
of detainees – and one of those instances has never been
investigated by police.
Committee chair Dominic Grieve, a Conservative former attorney
general, said yesterday that UK renditions had been organised to
countries with “very dubious human rights records, where it would
have been very likely that the person would be in fact tortured or
ill-treated”.
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The ISC has spent three years investigating the issue and says
it is “beyond doubt” that the UK knew what was going on. However,
the committee says it has not found a “smoking gun” indicating
there was a blanket policy of ignoring such cases.
Theresa May said some staff had not been “prepared” for the “new
and challenging operating environment” they faced. She said it had
taken “too long to recognise that guidance and training for staff
was inadequate”.
The intelligence services and army are now “much better placed”
to meet such challenges, the PM said. The BBC notes that new rules mean ministers must be
consulted now if a foreign intelligence agency is believed to be
torturing a suspect of interest to the UK.
The reports prompted renewed calls for a judge-led inquiry into
the treatment of detainees during the so-called War on Terror.
Conservative MP Ken Clarke, one of those calling for independent
scrutiny, scrapped the previous judge-led inquiry in 2013.
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