Ah, looks like the Government did indeed know about rendition flights:
The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out
what it knows about CIA "torture flights" and privately admits that
people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally to
interrogation centres, the Guardian can reveal. A hidden strategy aimed
at suppressing a debate about rendition – the US practice of
transporting detainees to secret centres where they are at risk of
being tortured – is revealed in a briefing paper sent by the Foreign
Office to No 10.
Be interesting to see how this plays out.
On December 7 – the date of the leaked document – Charles Kennedy, then
Liberal Democrat leader, asked Mr Blair when he was first made aware of
the American rendition flights, and when he approved them. Mr Blair
replied: "In respect of airports, I do not know what the right hon
gentleman is referring to."
Is this a direct lie to Parliament? Rather frowned on, that sort of thing.
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