Sinister earmarks of this, his critics say, are the kind of abuses that filled human rights dossiers under Saddam, and are now carried out by thuggish gangs that have proliferated under Mr. Maliki's rule.
The allegations made to the NEC were contained a dossier supplied under the name of Helal Abbas, who had once been Rahman's close friend.
The 21-page dossier released under the 30-year rule by the National Archives shows Savile's extraordinary access to the highest echelons of British society, chronicling lunches and personal letters between Mrs Thatcher and the DJ in the 1980s.
But the dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration, provide a deeper look at the frightening, if flawed, intelligence that has persuaded the Obama administration, too, that the prison cannot readily be closed.
The dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration, also show the seat-of-the-pants intelligence gathering in war zones that led to the incarcerations of innocent men for years in cases of mistaken identity or simple misfortune, the Times said.
The publication of the fateful dossier in September, under the imprimatur of the JIC, was an unprecedented departure which - it was already known - was opposed by many senior agents.
The evidence of the CIC's involvement raises the possibility that the dossier was produced under the auspices not of the JIC but of a propaganda unit answerable to Campbell.
It is that the firmest language in the dossier was put under the name of Mr Blair himself namely, that the threat posed by Iraq was "serious and current", contrary to his own chief of staff's advice against describing the threat as "imminent".Mr Blair, in other words, went out on a limb, by comparison even with his close aides.
Mr Laurie - who is now chief executive of the charity Crimestoppers - also suggested the Joint Intelligence Committee ultimately responsible for producing and signing off the dossier had come under "direction and pressure" - something Mr Campbell has always strongly disputed.
That claimed threat dominated newspaper coverage, and the claim was one source of Dr. Kelly's reservations about how the dossier was being assembled under the political supervision of Alastair Campbell, then Mr. Blair's spokesman.
