"Brown's announcement, in a Commons written statement, came after the intelligence and security committee (ISC) disclosed that it had written to the prime minister about what it calls the "alleged complicity of UK security and intelligence agencies in torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment". Kim Howells, the former Foreign Office minister who chairs the committee, said it had been given new information by the head of MI5, Jonathan Evans, about the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who was recently released from Guantánamo Bay." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet