Doubts on U.S. torture assurance
Britain should no longer rely on U.S. assurances that it does not torture terrorism suspects, an influential House of Commons committee said.
London had taken those assurances at face value but after the CIA acknowledged “waterboarding” three detainees, Britain should change its stance, the Foreign Affairs Committee said in its annual report on human rights.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in April that he thought the technique, which simulates drowning, amounted to torture.
President Bush vetoed legislation in March that would have banned the CIA from using the technique.
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