544:"The Prime Minister (Mr David Cameron): While there is no evidence that any British officer was directly engaged in torture in the aftermath of 9/11, there are questions over the degree to which British officers were working with foreign security services who were treating detainees in ways they should not have done. So we will have a single, authoritative examination of all these issues. It will look at whether Britain was implicated in the improper treatment of detainees, held by other countries, that may have occurred in the aftermath of 9/11. I have asked the right hon. Sir Peter Gibson to lead the inquiry." The other members of the three-member inquiry team were
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