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Torture and Rendition: Diplomats 'trying to censor' US Senate report on British role in CIA activities
Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott tried to lobby US intelligence committee Senator Martin Heinrich on July 14, says charity Reprieve

Desperate diplomats are trying to censor a US Senate report that would blow open Britain’s role in torture and rendition, legal action charity Reprieve said yesterday.

Britain’s ambassador to the US has held at least 22 meetings with US intelligence select committee senators since they began looking into leaked CIA cables in 2009.

Newly released Foreign Office documents show “the desperate attempts being made by the UK to censor the Senate’s report on CIA torture,” stormed Reprieve executive director Clare Algar.

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