The Foreign Office said it couldn't provide its files on secret CIA rendition of terrorism suspects for torture, because those files (and only those files) were "water-damaged."
Once this laughable excuse was widely known and a PR nightmare began, the Foreign Office suddenly announced that the files had been "dried out."
Lost US extraordinary rendition files have 'dried out', Foreign Office says [Telegraph]
(via Techdirt)
(Image: Little Brother Image 6 “Waterboarding”, Richard Wilkinson)
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