U.S. Lied to Brits About Torture!! Surprised? Not!!

And this surprises no one, especially us in the U.S. and the Brits who along with millions of others hit the streets and were voicing the reality of the failed trumped up policy of destruction to National Securities! It certainly doesn't to those that supported everything done by the previous U.S. administration and their cohorts in and out of Washington Government.

British spy boss ignorant of US torture

09 March 2010 The former head of MI5 reveals she had no idea US intelligence agencies were using torture techniques to obtain information.

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of the MI5 between 2002 and 2007, told an audience at the House of Lords tonight she knew nothing of the controversial practices.

Speaking at a question and answer session organised by the Mile End Group she said she discovered from the media that information on UK terrorism from 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was only obtained after he was repeatedly water boarded. >>>>>

Ex-MI5 chief says US 'concealed suspect mistreatment'

Baroness Mannigham-Buller spoke at a lecture in the House of Lords

March 9 2010 The former head of MI5 has claimed US intelligence agencies "concealed" their mistreatment of terror suspects.

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller said she only discovered alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded after retiring in 2007.

In a lecture at the House of Lords, she said the US had been "very keen to conceal from us what was happening".

Her comments follow controversy over UK agents' alleged collusion with US counterparts using torture techniques. >>>>>

London protested at torture, says ex-MI5 chief

March 9 2010 The British government complained to the US administration over the latter’s use of torture on terrorist suspects, a former head of MI5, the Security Service, said on Tuesday night.

Giving a lecture in the House of Lords, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said “the government did lodge protests” to its US counterparts once the extent of torture was known. It is the first time that has been said publicly.

Asked if she had known of the use of waterboarding and other techniques of pressure while she was director-general of MI5, from October 2002 until her retirement in April 2007, she said she had done, and had disapproved. “Nothing – not even the saving of lives – justifies torturing people,” she said. >>>>>

Is she speaking the truth now, or trying to minimize any blowback for the coming decades?

Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees

United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.

Eliza Manningham-Buller, who retired in 2007 and is now a member of the House of Lords, said the U.S. deliberately suppressed details of its harsh handling of some detainees, including accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

"The Americans were very keen that people like us did not discover what they were doing," Manningham-Buller told a meeting at Britain's Parliament. >>>>>