The Observer view on torture | Observer editorial

It is time to nail the lies in this shameful episode in US and British historyThe extraordinary row in Washington over the report by the Senate intelligence committee into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme in the years after the 9/11 attacks is, primarily, a product of guilt and fear. Guilt that America’s most senior leaders, from former president George W Bush down, directed and condoned the use of “abhorrent” illegal techniques against terrorism suspects that plainly amou