In a joint submission to the courts, lawyers for Belhaj, Bouchar and Rahmatullah said: "In seeking to deny [them] access to court, the [government] contend that two rules preclude any consideration of the grave allegations made against the executive and former government officials.
Brennan, who withdrew from consideration as CIA director in 2008 out of allegations he did not consider torture to be a serious offence, is a year into his tenure after being nominated by Obama.
A statement from the presidency on Wednesday said: "The public protector's report will be an additional tool which will fall under the consideration of President Zuma in addressing allegations of maladministration.
If the GMC's fitness to practise process is working effectively, the decisions made within it should be influenced primarily by consideration of the nature and content of the allegations and not by unrelated characteristics of the doctor or doctors involved.
These standards need to give due consideration to the allegations of sexual misconduct by clergy involving young women and men who have recently attained legal adulthood.
"Mainly by the number of allegations.
The agency makes a variety of allegations.
All kinds of allegations are leveled.
We had 12 246 records of allegations available for analysis.
*Adjusted relative odds of high impact outcome rather than low impact outcome adjusted for sex, years since primary medical qualification, medical specialty, source of inquiry, type of inquiry, and content of allegations (allegation type was not included at triage stage).
