UK involvement in the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ was facing renewed scrutiny on Friday after it emerged that government lawyers had asked the attorney-general to investigate possible “criminal wrongdoing” by the security service MI5.
The Home Office confirmed its lawyers had referred evidence about the case of the last remaining detainee held at Guantánamo Bay since 2004 to Baroness Scotland, attorney-general. As an ‘independent law officer’ she is to consider what further action, if any, should be taken in the case.
