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Former British Spy Boss Slams US Torture Tactics

LONDON (March 10) -- The former head of Britain's domestic security service has attacked U.S. intelligence agencies for keeping their allies in the dark about the mistreatment of suspected terrorists. "The Americans were very keen that people like us did not discover what they were doing," Eliza Manningham-Buller said...

UK Court Publishes Details of Alleged CIA Torture

LONDON (Feb. 10) – A London court on Wednesday ordered the British government to disclose confidential U.S. intelligence showing that a British resident and former Guantanamo Bay inmate suffered "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" while in American custody. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband had previously...

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The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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