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. Our home affairs correspondent Simon Israel commented: "The Baroness says that she had no knowledge at all about what the Americans were doing - how they were treating their captives both in Afghanistan and Guantanamo. "Tonight she simply says she only discovered these things after the media started reporting it, and presumably after the security and intelligence committee were beginning their investigations into what was going on.
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.
Our home affairs correspondent Simon Israel commented: "The Baroness says that she had no knowledge at all about what the Americans were doing - how they were treating their captives both in Afghanistan and Guantanamo.
"Tonight she simply says she only discovered these things after the media started reporting it, and presumably after the security and intelligence committee were beginning their investigations into what was going on.
I call bullshit.
How special.
