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Details for PM's Rendition Statement Inadequate - 18.03.09
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Description	All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition House of Commons Press release: Immediate, Wednesday 18 March 2009 Andrew Tyrie MP comments on the Prime Minister’s Statement on Detainees, in which he announced that he has asked the Intelligence and Security Committee to “consider any new developments and relevant information, since their 2005 Report on Detention and their 2007 Report on Rendition”. Andrew Tyrie MP said: “The Prime Minister’s announcement is inadequate. We need a judge-led inquiry. He is isolated in his refusal to allow this. Lord Carlile, the government’s own independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has concluded that a judge-led inquiry is necessary. I agree.” “Since I began investigating rendition I have made a number of specific allegations, on Diego Garcia, Binyam Mohamed, and detainee handovers by UK Forces. On each of these, the Government provided assurances that there was nothing to worry about. And on each of these, Ministers have been forced to come to the House to correct those inaccurate assurances.” “In its Report into Rendition the ISC found ‘no evidence that the UK Agencies were complicit in any “Extraordinary Rendition” operations’. We now know this not to be the case. On the contrary, the UK ‘facilitated’ the interrogation of Binyam Mohamed, as successive judgments have made clear.” “In August 2008 I urged the Intelligence and Security Committee to reopen its inquiry into Rendition. The High Court had concluded in the case of Binyam Mohamed that ‘the ISC Report could not have been made in such terms if the 42 documents had been made available to it’. I am pleased that it has now done so, but it does not have the mandate to examine all the issues surrounding extraordinary rendition.” “We need to get to the truth on rendition, to enable us to draw a line under all of this and move on. Only a judge-led inquiry can give the public confidence that we have got to the bottom of all of this. Only by doing so can we restore confidence not least among those whose support we most need to bear down on terrorism.” Ends.
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