Britain is more pro-American, even more American, than the headlines about Libyan torture suggest

By Bagehot

A SLEW of depressing reports has reached Britain in recent days from Libya, based on what appear to be letters and memos found in the looted offices of Libya’s former spy chiefs, pointing to the complicity of Britain’s overseas intelligence service, MI6, in handing suspected Islamic extremists over to Libya for interrogation during the previous Labour government.

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