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US 'concealed torture'

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The former head of MI5, Lady Manningham-Buller, has claimed that US intelligence services concealed the mistreatment of terror suspects from British officials, only finding out that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded after she retired in 2007.

Security correspondent Gordon Correra outlines the accusations.

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