UK lawmakers will ask US for secret parts of CIA report
A powerful British parliamentary committee will ask the United States to hand over blacked out parts of a report into the CIA, to try to establish whether British spies were complicit in torture or rendition, its chairman said on Sunday.
If parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) saw evidence of such behaviour, it could summon politicians from the left-leaning Labour party such as former prime minister Tony Blair who were in power at the time of the allegations.
"If British intelligence officials were present when people were being tortured then they were complicit in that torture," Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the ISC's chair and a former foreign secretary, said.
"That would be quite against all the standards of this country. It would be something that ought to be brought into the public domain," Rifkind told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
