The UK’s shameful collusion in torture

The government itself identified years ago why an independent judicial inquiry should be established to investigate the allegations of collusion by the UK security and intelligence agencies in rendition and torture (Report, 29 June).When David Cameron appointed Peter Gibson to run such an inquiry in July 2010, the then PM said that an intelligence and security committee (ISC) investigation would be inadequate to secure public confidence.Now we see that he was right, but not because of any I