The Guardian website headline screams, as if in pain:
Whitehall devised torture policy for terror detainees
MI5 interrogations in Pakistan agreed by lawyers and government
The ensuing text reveals … what?
That there was an ‘official interrogation policy’. Directed at a high level in Whitehall. And agreed by lawyers and officials.
Great Scott.
What would they want?
No interrogation policy? Or one run by a registry clerk somewhere? Or one which plunges on with no regard to the law?
The article claims that some suspects were tortured by in Pakistan gaols before being questioned by MI5.
The evidence as presented in this fatuous article is just as consistent with the British Government doing everything right in difficult circumstances as it is with evil officially-sponsored or officially-endorsed abuse of suspects.
Which is not to say that what happened was right or wise. Just that if this is anything to go on, we can’t tell.
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