Brendan Ryan (Labour)

The US Government has never done so. It admitted it transfers prisoners from one place to another but it has never accepted responsibility for any of the cases documented in this report. It has denied they ever happened. There is an innocence on the Government's part because it does not want to get itself into a position of conflict with an obnoxious government in Washington. It decided to ignore the evidence that extraordinary rendition was being carried out extensively. The Government chose to accept the word of the US.