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Revealed: How Britain benefits from torture

02 March 2015

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"According to a source close to the East Midlands bomb operation, the British officials would have made sure they were not actually in the room where the torture was allegedly taking place, but there was no way the intelligence that thwarted the bombing wasn't procured under duress. It is a fair inference to say he was being tortured. He wasn't volunteering the information, that's for sure, the source said. Of course we use intelligence from torture. We take it from wherever we can get it, but we are never, ever going to say we don't want that. Or ask too many questions about where it has come from. It is the difference between intelligence and evidence."

See the full story: Revealed: How Britain benefits from torture (Independent on Sunday, link)

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