Ministers have stood up and said they've never heard of the idea that detainees may be being tortured in Afghanistan. Could it be that the PCO is keeping ministers on a need-to-know basis? Maybe the PCO reads these things and says they'd better not tell the minister about this because if the minister knew detainees were being tortured and he got asked if detainees were being tortured.... It goes from blindness to wilful blindness.
On May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.