LONDON (AP) — A U.K. parliamentary panel wants access to information not made public in a U.S. Senate report that may pertain to Britain’s role in the interrogation and rendition of terror suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, told the BBC on Sunday that the panel would request access to the findings related to Britain on these matters.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s Downing Street office has acknowledged that some parts of the report were blacked out for national security reasons, but says none of it related to British involvement in the mistreatment of prisoners.
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogations released this past week exposed years of misrepresentations that seem designed to boost the case for the effectiveness of brutal interrogations.
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“… the panel would request access to the findings…”
Certainly, m’lord. That comes to five trajillion dollars.
Will that be cash or credit?
Conservatives circling the wagons to protect Tony Blair’s ass and the asses of those who likewise participated in torture and rendition. “Official Secrets Act,” what what?
I’ve been reading the UK papers since this story broke. Don’t think anyone is going to circle the wagons to protect bLiar. The Labour Party will want to send bLiar to The Hague. The Conservatives, with parliamentary elections months away, will want any and all dirt on bLiar released, so that the Conservatives can remind the voters that bLiar was a Labour PM.
I’d really like to see that sanctimonious poodle get it.
UK torture inquiry could summon Blair and Straw
Wonder if the new Congress will do the same and summon W and Chinny?