Torture claims center on scenic isle Case has MI6 chief John Scarlett of defense

LONDON – Whatever did or didn't happen on a tiny remote British Crown Colony, the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, has brought MI6 chief John Scarlett out of his shadowy world this week to ward off allegations both MI6 and MI5 were complicit in torture of suspected terrorists at a top-secret interrogation center there, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

After 9/11 but before President Obama took office in the United States, high value al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists were flown to Diego Garcia in what were called "extraordinary rendition flights."

On Nov. 3, 2000, Britain's Foreign Office issued an "Immigration Ordinance Order" which assured that Diego Garcia would remain "as secret a place as can be found on the planet," the government of Tony Blair announced at the time. But when he soon gives evidence to the Chilcot Enquiry into the Iraq War, "he will be questioned about Diego Garcia," according to a Whitehall source. ....