Former spy seeks to show UK knew of Guantanamo torture: Sunday Times

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:33am EST

LONDON (Reuters) - A former senior British intelligence officer wants to give evidence that the country's security services knew about the torture of inmates at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, a newspaper reported.

The former officer is seeking permission to present evidence to a forthcoming parliamentary inquiry that British officials saw detainees being tortured in December 2002, the Sunday Times said quoting senior security sources.

Details of torture were disclosed during meetings held at the London headquarters of Britain's MI5 in 2002 and the evidence is believed to include claims that British officials witnessed inmates being chained, hooded, waterboarded and subjected to mental abuse by CIA officials, the report said.

No one was immediately available to comment at Britain's interior ministry which handles media queries relating to MI5.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[reddread]

2. do it

[gvstn]

3. State sactiioned torture....

Is the worst thing about G.W.Bush and that is saying a lot.

I'm sure Cheney played his role with both his hands in it, but G.W. still gets the credit for destroying the basic American values that made us a great country, once upon a time. Now not so much. And i will say it again if necessary. We were great but not so much anymore. We've lost our way. Maybe Bernie can help save/recover us. I hope someone can!

[Android3.14]

4. I'm with you.

What we allowed our leaders during that time to do to this country is something from which we may never recover. Maybe, just maybe, Bernie can help us clean some of the stain from our country's collective soul.

[gvstn]

5. When G.W. allwed torture.

All my Superman ideals went south. The "American way" went south.

We need a leader who can bring it back.

I'm not sure we will get one, but what we have now is disgusting. It is all about personal gain and not improving individual people's lives, like it once was(or at least pretended to be).