However, Downing Street did reject the former US president’s claims that such interrogation, designed to mimic the experience of drowning, did not equate to torture.
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Government silent on torture intelligence amid Bush furore
The UK Government has refused to say if it had acted on intelligence obtained through torture amid growing anger over George Bush’s defence of the use of waterboarding.
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