The British on intelligence: a collection (SIS, MI5, GCHQ & more)

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Finally after a long procedure, gathering evidence and questioning in private; with some official hesitation over publication - plus a refusal to answer their urging that a criminal investigation was needed for one matter - the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament has reported (usually referred to as the ISC).

The headline in 'The Daily Telegraph': 'Britain tolerated 'inexcusable' treatment of terror detainees by US after 9/11, report finds', which is a very short article and a longer one, no surprise, in 'The Guardian' entitled: 'True scale of UK role in torture and rendition after 9/11 revealed'. That reports starts with:

The reports published on Thursday amount to one of the most damning indictments of UK intelligence, revealing links to torture and rendition were much more widespread than previously reported.
While there was no evidence of officers directly carrying out physical mistreatment of detainees, the reports say the overseas agency MI6 and the domestic service MI5 were involved in hundreds of torture cases and scores of rendition cases.

Links:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-detainees-us/ and https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-911-revealed?

The ISC website has links to their short press releases and the fuller reports.
Link:http://isc.independent.gov.uk/news-archive/28june2018

There is a small, parallel thread on a related subject:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...hlight=torture