Baroness Mannigham-Buller spoke at a lecture in the House of Lords The former head of MI5 has claimed US intelligence agencies "concealed" their mistreatment of terror suspects.Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller said she only discovered alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded after retiring in 2007. In a lecture at the House of Lords, she said the US had been "very keen to conceal from us what was happening". Her comments follow controversy over UK agents' alleged collusion with US counterparts using torture techniques. Last month it emerged that Binyam Mohamed, a British resident formerly held at Guantanamo Bay, had been subjected to "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment. "The Americans were very keen that people like us did not discover what they were doing Lady Manningham-Buller Ministers and current MI5 head Jonathan Evans have insisted that there was no collusion by UK security officers. However, questions remain about exactly when they learnt that the US apparently changed its rules on torture after the 9/11 attacks.[Read more...]