LONDON — THE UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) will ask the US to hand over blacked out parts of a report into the Central Intelligence Agency to determine whether UK spies were complicit in torture or rendition, its chairman told the BBC on Sunday.
If the committee saw evidence of such behaviour, it could summon politicians such as former prime minister Tony Blair, who were in power at the time. "If British intelligence officials were present when people were being tortured then they were complicit in that torture," said chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
A report by the US Senate’s intelligence committee released last week found that the CIA had misled the White House and the public about its torture of detainees after the September 11 2001 attacks and had acted more brutally than had been thought.
The UK’s foreign and domestic security services, MI6 and MI5, have for years been accused of colluding in the ill-treatment of suspected militants.
LONDON — THE UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) will ask the US to hand over blacked out parts of a report into the Central Intelligence Agency to determine whether UK spies were complicit in torture or rendition, its chairman told the BBC on Sunday.
If the committee saw evidence of such behaviour, it could summon politicians such as former prime minister Tony Blair, who were in power at the time. "If British intelligence officials were present when people were being tortured then they were complicit in that torture," said chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
A report by the US Senate’s intelligence committee released last week found that the CIA had misled the White House and the public about its torture of detainees after the September 11 2001 attacks and had acted more brutally than had been thought.
The UK’s foreign and domestic security services, MI6 and MI5, have for years been accused of colluding in the ill-treatment of suspected militants.
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