Decision on stalled inquiry follows years of assurances by ministers that inquiry would be headed by senior judge
18 December 2013 - The stalled official inquiry into the UK's involvement in rendition and torture in the years after 9/11 is to be handed to the controversial intelligence and security committee (ISC), the government will announce on Thursday.
The decision follows years of assurances by ministers that the inquiry would be headed by a senior judge, with the prime minister having told MPs that no other arrangement would command public confidence. It triggered warnings from human rights groups that the government risked complaints of a cover-up.
The ISC is the oversight body that has been condemned for failing to report on the bulk surveillance operations being conducted by the UK's signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, until after they became public. Its inquiry into rendition concluded only that MI5 and MI6 had been slow to spot what the CIA had been doing. read more>>>
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