Musharraf hints that Britain tacitly backed torture

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/14/musharraf-hints-britain-backed-torture

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has claimed he was not told about Britain's disapproval of torture, and has no recollection of being told that his country's intelligence agency, the ISI, should not torture British subjects.

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Sir David Omand, the government's former security and intelligence adviser, tells the programme: "I am very clear we are not and have not been complicit in torture and I'm in no doubt that all the countries concerned including Pakistan and the United States were very well aware of what British policy was, which was we don't do this and we don't ask other people to do it."

The Security Service, MI5, and the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, strongly deny that they "outsource" torture to other countries, or take any part in promoting it.

However, they do act on information passed to them even if it could have been obtained by torture in what they describe as "passive" involvement.