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 Jonathan Evans |
LONDON – Jonathan Evans, the snappily dressed director-general of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency, could be facing the kind of intense interrogation his own top investigators give others, according to a source close to Lord Carlisle of Berliew, the government’s terrorism watchdog, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The possibility comes in a case for which MI5 lawyers have turned over files to Britain’s attorney general, Baroness Scotland, who has begun a “full inquiry” into the Security Service’s role in the alleged torture of al-Qaida suspects.
The two suspects were captured by British forces in 2004 and flown to Bagram prison in Afghanistan. Word of the developments in the case came in Parliament when Defense Secretary John Hutton conceded the situation is in “legal limbo.”
It is the most serious case yet in which senior cabinet ministers have admitted Britain’s role in flying suspects secretly in private jets to foreign custody arrangements replete with allegations of torture, while the government has publicly been saying, “We do not torture.”
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Jack Straw, then foreign secretary, and Charles Clarke, then home secretary, were told about the two cases in briefing papers in April 2006, but Hutton told a shocked Parliament the two ministers had not spotted the significance of the cases because “their officials had not highlighted them.”
Now Scotland Yard has confirmed it is ready “to begin a full criminal inquiry once the director of public prosecutions, Keith Starmer, gives the go-ahead.”
Such an investigation could see the 50-year-old Evans under questioning, the source close to Lord Carlisle said.
He has asked for a full judicial inquiry into “the whole of British intelligence and security personnel in the rendition of al-Qaida suspects captured by British forces in Iraq.”
Carlisle, a queen’s counsel, said the inquiry should be in private but must publish a public report. He wants it to include the case of Binyam Mohamed, now back in Britain after five years in Guantanamo Bay, who claims he was tortured with the complicity of MI5 while held in Pakistan in 2002.
The files now in the hands of Attorney-General Baroness Scotland show that at the time Jonathan Evans was the MI5 divisional director responsible for counter-terrorism.
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