Come clean on British links to torture, MPs tell US Senate

Source: The Guardian

The head of the powerful Commons intelligence and security committee is demanding that the US hand over its archive of material documenting Britain’s role in the CIA’s abduction and torture programme developed in the wake of the 9/11 attack.

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chair of the parliamentary inquiry into the complicity of British intelligence agencies in the US programme, has told the Observer that British MPs would seek the intelligence relating to the UK that was redacted from last week’s explosive Senate report, which concluded that the CIA repeatedly lied over its brutal but ineffective interrogation techniques.

The move comes amid escalating pressure on the government not to extend an agreement allowing the US to use the British Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia as a military base until its true role in the CIA’s extraordinary rendition has been established.

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Among references to British complicity believed to have been redacted are passages relating to Diego Garcia, triggering speculation that Britain had lobbied the US Senate committee’s members to delete all references to it.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/13/britain-link-cia-torture-us-senate-unredacted-report