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‘Officers may have known’ about torture
Ex-security minister piles pressure on coalition
Pressure continued to mount yesterday for the British government to come clean over its role in the CIA rendition and torture programme.
Former security minister Admiral Lord West has admitted there may have been the “odd case” where British agents were aware of torture occurring.
He said torture was “abhorrent” and was not used by the British because “we have to be whiter than white” in the battle against international terrorists.
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