Ex-Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram admitted to an enquiry that he had lied to the Commons and blamed his department! What a slimy piece of excrement.
The facts are these. Information from BBC online.
'The inquiry is investigating claims UK soldiers beat to death Iraqi Baha Mousa, 26, in Basra in September 2003. Mr Mousa was found dead with 93 separate injuries after being held in the custody of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.
The inquiry has heard that the troops used "conditioning" methods on Iraqi prisoners, such as hooding, sleep deprivation and making them stand in painful stress positions with their knees bent and hands outstretched.
The techniques were banned by the government in 1972 following an investigation into interrogation in Northern Ireland.
The inquiry is currently examining who within the chain of command told British soldiers serving in Iraq in 2003 they were permitted to use these banned methods.In a Parliamentary answer he denied UK forces used hooding as an interrogation technique despite having seen papers to the contrary, a public inquiry heard.
Mr Ingram was copied in on a memo that revealed Mr Mousa was hooded for nearly 24 of 36 hours in custody before dying. He also received another document stating Mr Mousa, a hotel receptionist, and his colleagues were hooded on the advice of an interrogation expert.
Mr Ingram had assured the then head of the Parliamentary joint committee on human rights, Jean Corston, that hooding was only used while detainees were being transported. In a letter dated nine months after Mr Mousa's death, he wrote: "I should make absolutely clear that hooding was only used during the transit of prisoners. It was not used as an interrogation technique."
"It would appear that the hooding of the suspects took place on the advice of one of the staff sergeants."
Mr Ingram said: "In hindsight it would have been better if the department had reminded me of all the documentation." BBC Online News 02/062010
A defence taken straight from the handbook of blame shifting by Michael 'It wasnae me' Martin , the odious ex Speaker, now Lord Pomp of Circumstance. And just as effective!
Unfortunately for Ingram, as today's Guardian reveals, he was warned following Mousa's death by, a senior official: "This could be very messy." The official noted that Ingram would be the minister responsible for dealing with the repercussions.
'Ingram was asked about a parliamentary answer he gave to Kevin McNamara, a Labour backbencher, on 15 June 2004 about hooding.
Ingram said he was "not aware of any incidents in which UK interrogators are alleged to have used hooding as an interrogation technique".' Guardian 3/6/2010
How many more truths will have to be dragged, inch by inch, syllable by syllable, from these Labour Honourable Members who appear to have colluded willingly and cheerfully with the excesses demanded by our liaison with the US? How many poor souls have been tortured on our watch? How many more have been 'rendered' through our airspace?
And how many uncivil servants went along with all of this with nary a qualm?
Full public enquiry - now - on oath - with charges to follow if necessary.
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