British Role in U.S. Policy on Detainees Raises Storm
The British government may have permitted the use of its airspace and airports for clandestine American transportation of foreign prisoners more frequently than it initially acknowledged, according to a leaked document published Thursday in two British publications. The document – a memo said to have been written around Dec. 7 by a Foreign Office official, Irfan Siddiq, to Grace Cassy, an official in the office of Prime Minister Tony Blair – seems likely to deepen concerns across Europe about the extent of the flights, operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. Full Story