Dossier reveals how MPs were misled over torture

London: Parliament's supervision of the intelligence agencies was branded "not fit for purpose" on Monday amid growing evidence that MPs have been misled about MI5's complicity in torture.

Lawyers and MPs are calling for an overhaul of the Intelligence and Security Committee, which reports to the Prime Minister. Some believe it has become a mouthpiece for MI5.

Last night lawyers for Binyam Mohammad, the terrorist suspect at the heart of the recent court case into government complicity in CIA torture, issued a dossier of errors in the committee's reports.

Chairman Kim Howells said last week that his committee had seen all the classified evidence, and agreed emphatically that the security services had "no case to answer".

But the courts have turned up 42 different documents which show that the security services were aware of the treatment meted out to Mohammad, and supplied 70 questions to his interrogators.

The Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, has accused MI5 of "deliberately misleading Parliament" and operating a "culture of suppression" of information.

Clive Stafford-Smith, the director of human rights group Reprieve, which represents Mohammad, said last night: "The ISC not fit for purpose because the members are hand-picked by the Prime Minister's office."

"The PM's office then gets to vet any report to make sure nothing is published that it does not like."