Mr Brennan described the actions of some CIA agents as "harsh" and "abhorrent" but would not say if it constituted torture.

He added an overwhelming number of CIA agents followed legal advice from the justice department that authorised some of the brutal methods.

Seriously, how can there not be criminal charges against those involved. There are clear international laws on the treatment of prisoners or war, hence the Nuremberg trials after WW2 as the Nazi's broke loads of them.

Ahhh but the US said they were not Prisoners of War but Enemy Combatants and so did not have the rights under the various laws

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former foreign secretary leading the ISC scrutiny of UK involvement in torture, acknowledged the redactions could create suspicions but insisted there was no cover-up.

He told the BBC: “I actually had a conversation two days ago with the head of the relevant intelligence agency, and he stated quite categorically what we have now heard publicly: that there were no requests to redact or to conceal anything in the report that referred to any allegations of United Kingdom complicity in the treatment of detainees; that the only redactions that were being requested were with regard to operational matters, which were genuine national security issues. Now, that’s what he has said to us. Of course, as part of our inquiry we will look into that further to be absolutely satisfied.”