Which bureaucracy flubbed the records search? US rendition flights stopped on UK soil

Today’s GuardianAmerica carries a story about US flights on “extraordinary rendition” missions—i.e. transporting terrorist suspects to and from secret prisons where “enhanced interrogation,” aka torture, was used—that had twice landed on British soil.  Tony Blair’s government had assured Britons that no such flights had ever landed on British soil, that Britain had not participated in the US [...]