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December 14, 2014

Britain to seek access to redacted parts of CIA report into the use of torture after Sept. 11

CIA headquarters The Central Intelligence Agency headquarters is seen in this file photo in Langley, Virginia. Senate investigators have delivered a damning indictment of CIA interrogation practices after the 9/11 attacks, accusing the agency of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners with tactics that went well beyond legal limits. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press/Files

LONDON — A U.K. parliamentary panel wants access to information not made public in a U.S. Senate report that may pertain to Britain’s role in the interrogation and rendition of terror suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, told the BBC on Sunday that the panel would request access to the findings related to Britain on these matters.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s Downing Street office has acknowledged that some parts of the report were blacked out for national security reasons, but says none of it related to British involvement in the mistreatment of prisoners.

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogations released this past week exposed years of misrepresentations that seem designed to boost the case for the effectiveness of brutal interrogations.

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